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You were originally asking why spears hung on so long as a military weapon. Battles were not one on one duels. To ignore this seems to be fishing for some kind of answer that intentionally ignores the historical context.

A unit of spearmen works together to stab you from a further reach than you can respond with a sword. I think you also overestimate the ease with which you could chop a spear. Designs differed, but a Greek dory was about 2 inches in diameter. Try taking a whack at the wooden shaft of a shovel some time and see if you get it in one go. Remember that in combat if you were doing this, the person with the spear and the rest of the front rank would also be trying to stab you rather than standing still like polite mannequins.

A formation unit purely of sword-using infantry against spears would be pushed as the spears could kill the sword-users, while at best the sword-users could damage some of the spears but wouldn't get close enough to harm any of the spearmen. The spear unit with multiple ranks of usable spears could keep going even if a few spears were damaged.

Some sort of skirmishing formation of sword-users would be in even worse shape, as they'd be overwhelmed by a formation and as light moving skirmishers would likely not have full sized shields so if archers were involved would be easy pickings.

Swords in the Greek ancient world were used for close in fighting once the initial contact between formations had been made or if the quarters were otherwise impractical for spears.

Why not just target the wooden part

How?

Forgive me for answering a question with a question, but I don't fully understand the question.

I had a blender bottle from which I had drank all the liquid, which still had ice in it. Because the ice was above the 100ml line (the limit for LIQUIDS), they took it and threw it away. They wouldn't even just dump the ice, but tossed the whole bottle. Being that I was running short on time for my flight and I got my work to pay for a new one, I didn't fight it (also just because I'm correct doesn't mean the argument is going to go my way in a situation like this) but I'm still flabbergasted that ice was a liquid according to the pair of TSA seat fillers checking my bag.

I almost had a multimeter confiscated on a different occasion when they couldn't figure out what it was. That one I put my foot down until a supervisor thankful instantly waved me through when he showed up.

It's definitely an experiment, but is isn't Bill Nye.

I've been guessing points for six generations.

It's much worse than that.

Tyranids had a whole mashup of influences, and mollusks were prominant in their spaceship designs.

The 'nids were really any and every flavor of organic shape until the 3e look created the unified spiky-dinosaur-bug aesthetic.

"Best seller" depends on the metric being used, this article has some simple explanations, including how Amazon niche categories can be gamed to get a book to technically be a best seller.

Because Amazon refreshes ranks at least once a day (often hourly), a well-timed promotional spike can crown you a #1 “best seller” in dozens of micro-categories. Amazon itself acknowledges that ranks are relative and heavily weighted toward recent activity. Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing One TikTok push or email blast can deliver the screenshot—hence the glut of “international best-selling authors” whose lifetime sales barely break four figures.

For a more prestigious listing, like being a New York Times Best-Seller, that's just lies if the NY Times likes you.

The Times, which had always claimed that the list was compiled from computer sales, countered in court that its list “was not mathematically objective but was editorial content and thus protected under the Constitution as free speech.”

In something like "Rao's Homemade" sauces, the word "Homemade" is part of the registered name of the sauce (if you look close you can see the little "R" symbol for a Registered Trademark on the label), not a defined descriptor that needs to meet some kind of legal standard. Yes, it is trying to trick you into thinking of it as being less industrially made than it really is. Marketing.

At least you didn't ask about boneless chicken wings...

Be happy that this is what you're getting from the picture.

There had been fighting in Alaska.

I don't think that proves much besides marketing people slapping anything on a cover long after the movie was made.