In year 2013, we review the status of the the astronomy INTELLECTUAL wars  that get transformed into physical WAR events: accidents, crimes, trials, etc.
The physical tragedies .... are thus news reports for astronomy students and amateur  astronomy clubs.

Keep in mind the  dual Nature of astronomy and astrophysics.  
Astrophysics galactic LOCAL REGION (Planet Earth) is Nature's TEST site. 
Earth  is a subset of the universe ........... thus concepts and ideas that are used to describe astronomy events millions of miles aways in the Milky Way Galaxy and else   ...those same concepts may ...in a different FORMAT ...... help explain some EARTH human events.

Thus we a have a system VIEW:

a) astronomy objects exist millions of miles away  
b) scientist on the geography surface of Earth ... build and use various telescopes to study such physical objects and their behavior and gather data
c) theorists build symbolic models with concepts and equations to explain the data 

d) the theories  and the the data are printed in various science papers and in science  magazines   ..... in the traditional   SCIENCE FORMAT .... 

e) the printed articles are read by other humans.  The words and symbols are input data streams to the eye telescope / optical nerve data pipeline --> brain photon  computer  that  has a bio-optical computer SYMBOLIC MACHINE with MFT = Multiple Fixed Tasks.  Thus the astronomy/ astrophysics input data stream  gets routed ... to the traditional astronomy TASK information processing region inside the brain.
Nature many route the concepts to a social engineering TASK processing region in the brain ....... or route the data to  Hollywood script write that may use new word concepts to write new science fiction books.

Thus we see the influence of astronomy/ astrophysics concepts ..... in regular SCIENCE ....and then their possible additional roles in other areas.

Example:

BLACK HOLE  applications to Nature's earthy social engineering systems and the  social process control FEEDBACK error signaling system.

BLACK HOLE application to EARTH wars -->  black  Hole = BLACKsburg Virginia and grave HOLES.

Above...we have the 2nd CLUE ------ Sanduleak  --> leak the secret EARTH  ..... social science astronomy information.

Sanduleak   ...leak /secret
Sand ---> Message for White SAND region scientists / thinkers  

Sandu  --> astronomy and Nature's SYMBOLIC MACHINE  ... military identifier word

Sand   u (union of a sets of words)  Leak ...  male biology  ...  takes a leak in a john/ toilet/ locker room
Sand   U ---> Sand U sky  ...................................and the Penn State Locker room ...  message processing signaling event
Sand .......................sky ------>  LINK to   White SAND and sky /astronomy / alien brain cells