@mrwumasta: well, the US could have nuked North Korea, Viet-Nam, Iraq, and Afghanastan. Perhaps the aliens military doctrine doesn't allow for it. Maybe they could do it but since they want the water they also want to minimize environmental damage.

@Phintastic: Cause they are sports writers. If you wanted a story about crooked law enforcement look to reporters that cover those kinds of stories.

@mrwumasta: what if they have the technology but it's very resource intensive even for the aliens. So they are capable of sending an invasion force, but it's a small force that travels light. I could see it as their goal is to establish a beach-head with more invaders to follow.

@Unfather: Please do try it. Do you really think that just because they offered to do it for one person that one time it is suddenly now company policy?

He looks like how I imagined Mr. Wednesday/Odin from American Gods. Minus the armor of course

@214w: Because after they escape they will make sure they go back to the same place before hand and set up garbage cans to drop down onto the Daleks.

@tralfaz23: maybe we defaulted and they foreclosed on our nation. Then when we refused to vacate, they sent in the military?

I had heard that fashion models are basically viewed by designers as walking clothes hangers and since designers can't predict who will actually be wearing their fashions they design their clothes to look good on a hanger.

@B4UTRUST: No, I just recognize that some people can become very very good at one task. Even if they aren't necessarily all that good at others. Such people could probably have their brains examined the way they examined those fighter pilots and you would probably see similar improvements in the parts of the brains…

@Artifex: unfortunately, under the US system of health care something only "has merit" if it is profitable.

@B4UTRUST: Well, I should have said professional race car drivers. But my thought was that people operation high performance machinery in potentially dangerous condition might produce similar cognitive gains that are specifically connected to the job that they do.

@Artifex: I don't assume a monopoly on intellect. I assume that if there was profit to be made in a cure, it would have been found already.

@RilleL: I have some friends who play in an indoor soccer league. They pay a fee for a licence to use the fields, equipement, referees, locker rooms and so on. There is a sign the bans the use of metal cleats on the fields. Not because one person wearing metal cleats would destroy the field or cause injuries.

@grahamillion: I know, I was looking forward to playing as dark side Obiwan

@Artifex: Then tell me why, here in the US where we have for-profit health care did we not come up with this first? After all, capitalism is so much better right?

@chargernj: I also forgot profit. There's less profit in curing diseases. Better to "manage" illness, that way big pharma stays on the gravy train.

@ManchuCandidate: also in real life, it's a lot harder to fire accurately while running. FPS players seem to forget that sometimes. Even me with my small amount of Army Reserve experience from over 10 years ago was able to repeatedly wax the younger paintball players who bragged how it was gonna be "just like Modern…

@B4UTRUST: Makes me wonder if you would see similar results if you tested NASCAR drivers.

@vpcmotorsport: Walk away, just, walk away

Requires socialized medicine and stem cell research. So in other words, it will never happen in the US.