If at first you don't succeed, try management.

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

The "Powers That Be" are not smart enough to engineer Armageddon, but they may yet be stupid enough. If governments are involved in covering up the knowledge of aliens, then they are doing a much better job of it than they seem to do at anything else.

Many people find the universe confusing - it's not.

The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. We are so insignificant that I can't believe the whole universe exists for our benefit. That would be like saying that you would disappear if I closed my eyes.

In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are immense.

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.