There is no such thing as 'karma' in western capitalism (and this is not fascism). Perhaps one or two of them will spend a few months in a minimum-security prison.

If I were one of this couple, I would be extraordinarily cautious for the next several years. You do not challenge a party member in a communist state, and you do not challenge senior members of the management class in an industrial-capitalist state without bad things happening.

Yet I, stupidly and resolutely, remain a libertarian.

posted by eldavojohn:
        "Consider this fact: In the air we breathe, each cubic centimeter contains roughly 5 X 1019 atoms. In contrast, the intergalactic medium has a density of only 10-6 particles per cubic centimeter"

Probably a stupid question. For this amount of inter-galactic stuff, should there not be a significant amount of "scattering" of all
radiation ? Has or can this scattering effect been measured ?

Also, the linked article (www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2624) said that this stuff - "confined into filaments means that a very strong gravitational field must be pulling it into place. According to theory, only dark matter can do the trick." Why can only "dark" matter be the cause ?

I shall cast my shame unto the waters. I still do not understand "dark" matter. Would one of you good physical science people do some explainin' to a simple-minded redneck ?!?