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Galaxies Floating on a Dark Matter Stream
Darkman, Walkin Dude writes "A team in Switzerland has discovered that most of the small satellite galaxies around the Milky Way's near-twin, Andromeda, are lined up in a single plane that slices through Andromeda's spiral disc. Using images from the Hubble space telescope, soon to be decommissioned, the researchers found that 9 of the 14 of Andromeda's satellites lay on a relatively narrow plane bisecting Andromeda. From the article: 'The team believes the plane could have formed in several ways. In one scenario, the galaxies may have fallen towards Andromeda along an invisible filament of dark matter. Computer simulations show these filaments can form a cosmic web along which galaxies flow.'"
That, and the fact it we don't want to be fighting wars on two different fronts. Chances are, we will deal with N. Korea with military means once we are sure Europe can take on Iran. It's WWIII, I'm bloddy serious.
That is so utterly wrong I can't even begin to put words to it. The US will never ever deal with North Korea militarily unless North Korea attacks another nation.
People forget that the capital of South Korea is in artillery range of North Korea. North Korea has a massive amount of chemical and biological weapons at its disposal. In any attack, North Korea would intentionally inflict massive civilian casualties on South Korea has it dumped chemical and conventional rounds into heavily populated zones with artillery and missiles. Further, you can pretty much rest assure that if North Korea will fire on Tokyo with chemical weapons and nukes.
There will be no war with North Korea. Every nation in the region would step in to stop it, South Korea, Japan, and China included. When I say "stop it" I don't just mean "apply diplomatic pressure". I mean they would physically stop it with force of arms if they had to. Of course, that isn't going to be a problem because no president or congress would ever be so insane as to destroy the world economy by drowning some of the largest economies in Asia (Japan and South Korea) in a chemical cloud and receiving sanctions from all the others (China and everyone else).
The idea that the US would ever invade North Korea is utterly inane. The only thing North Korea could ever do to provoke a response from the US would be to nuke the US. I imagine at that point our response wouldn't be invasion, it would be glassing.