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Kicks can still be useful. For example, as a finisher. Punches are quicker and easier to aim, but kicks have longer range and more power. If you can land a couple good punches, you can daze or wind your assailant and knock them back into kick range, and then finish the fight with a kick while their reflexes are slowed. Also, for the average untrained person, there's a vast difference between seeing a kick coming and being able to counter one. You might think, "I can just grab their foot and flip them," but if you don't have the coordination to catch their foot, they'll just plow through your fingers and into your face. Or if you grab before their momentum is spent and they're stronger than you, it'll take you down as well as if you hadn't blocked.
I do agree, however, that when compared to punches, kicks are at a disadvantage when it comes to speed, telegraphing the move, and the user's balance. I just don't think that kicks are completely useless in a fight.

Also known by his name, Michael Jones. Or Michael "Ragequit" Jones. Or Micoo. Or by his alter-ego, Mogar.

Marriage is more than just a piece of paper. That's kind of the thing that makes this a whole issue. People are arguing over whether marriage is either an institution developed by God for the joining of a man and a woman into a family unit, or a symbol that a particular person is more special to another particular person than anyone else in the world, or a mix of the two, or something in between, but they're all agreed that it's more than just a piece of paper that says "you two can't have sex with anyone else anymore." If it were only a piece of paper, no one would care that heterosexual couples get a "marriage" and homosexual couples get a "civil union" because the papers give the same things.

Only if
A) we get invited out specifically as a group date (eg: "Hey, do you and [other names here] want to go see a movie with me and [other names here] as a date?")
B) someone is sending VERY CLEAR SIGNALS that they like someone else in the group
C) one person (or group) insists on paying for everything (if money was involved, that is. There are some pretty fun dates that don't cost anything. So this doesn't really apply for something like, say, stargazing.)

Well...Ebola DOES attack the brain as well as everything else, and usually takes out the parts of the brain responsible for self-identity and memory first, resulting in the victim becoming a virus-filled meatbag with motor skills that seeks out other warm bodies to spread the disease. And by that point, all internal organs have the characteristics of ones that have been dead for several days. So it's kind of like a zombie, in a way!

Brilliant pun, sir/madam!

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found the source vid
ht tps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLq5NibwV5g (FS doesn't like my links, so erase the space in "ht tps")
It's a supersaturated solution of sodium acetate, and a single solid crystal of sodium acetate on the end of the rod to act as a "seed" crystal (like a starting point)

Probably sodium acetate. Dissolve it in near-boiling water (to supersaturate the solution) until no more can be added, then let it cool back to room temperature. Poking it, shaking it, or otherwise disturbing it after that causes it to rapidly crystalize. Sodium acetate and water is the only solution I know that does that, but it could also be something else. There's probably source video with more information somewhere.

Actually, duct tape is the official restraint of crazy astronauts.