More at Colliding Universes ...
(Colliding Universes is my blog on competing theories of our universe, including some impressively wacky ones. I've been posting items there because I am reviewing an astronomer's book. Back here soon.)
Physics: No escape from philosophy through equations?
Does our solar system occupy a unique position in the universe, or just an ordinary one?
Extraterrestrials: Several million UFO reports later ... the state of the question