But when world-views collide directly, there is no peace.
It is unlikely that any stars in the two galaxies collided directly because of the vast distances between them.
The Saturday before Christmas, which looks like it will end up as the busiest shopping day of the year, collided directly with the House debate and vote to impeach President Clinton.
Disney moved one of its big films, a remake of "Mighty Joe Young," from July to Christmas, colliding directly with "Prince of Egypt."
He collides directly with Sun, thus meeting his future wife for the first time.
With the arrival of its PlayStation 3 less than a month away, Sony is embarking on a worldwide marketing campaign that will collide directly with an equally ambitious effort by Microsoft.
There are numerous experiments worldwide attempting to detect the energy deposition that is expected to occur when a WIMP directly collides with an atom of ordinary matter.
The second asteroid directly collides with earth, striking in the Philippine Basin of the Pacific Ocean and causing seizmic upheaval.
With their Marxist ideology and separatist aspirations, the Kurdish guerrillas collide directly with the founding notion of Turkey as a land unified by language, faith and national identity.
However, directly colliding into an enemy will still destroy the ship instantly.