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Began 14.7 billion years ago. and how might all end. it just, its really beyond ultimate story. >> larry: let me get a break and come right back with john smithson and ben buoy. steven hawking, by the way is coming up. first, how would we respond if alien life landed on earth? chlor-trimeton relieves itchy, watery eyes and sneezing for 12 full hours with less drowsiness than benadryl. it does all that? chlor-trimeton. less drowsy relief that lasts 12 hours. i switched to a complete multivitamin ...

So it was -- it was brain numbingly difficult, but also really good fun. and steven hawking is just a remarkable man. i mean, he -- he just has this presence. everyone feels it. we did something with him last night in london, and the whole room stops when he comes in. he has, you know, its weird. we almost talk of him as a rock star of science. he has this extraordinary aura about him, and we just know that trapped in this body that he cant use is this quite brilliant brain. theres something abo...

Chance of doing a series that was both totally big-deal science, definitive science about what we know about the cosmos, but in an educating and in an informative and in an entertaining way, so that a global audience on discovery channel could be sort of interested in this. >> larry: ben, does the british government take this seriously? >> im not -- im not sure im qualified to answer that, but i dont think so. >> larry: john -- no, ben, you first. the tendency has been to kind of dismiss this un...

Received, called the wow signal. take a look. >> on august 16th, 1977, a radio telescope in ohio picked up a signal that became famous. the signal was a steady source of radio waves, just the kind an alien race might send, because it stands out from the radio static that fills the universe. a computer recorded the signal as six letters and numbers. astronomer jeremy erman saw the data and wrote one word in the margin. >> larry: this is a remarkable, remarkable entertaining feature that will air ...

About aliens in that program was very much what steven hawking wanted to say. for years he had been lecturing about the -- about lots of things including the possibilities of alien life. what we are able to do, for the first time using the wonders of computer graphics, was to visualize with professor hawking hypothetically what they might look like. thats what were able to do here. >> larry: ben, you did this come about? how did you and steven and john all get together and do this. >> well, disc...