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hawkings says its possible and issues a warning for all of us. stop trying to contact other life forms now. just in case theyre out there and theyre hostile. >> they are likely to be more advanced than us. >> larry: hawking joins us, answering our questions, sounding the alarm. believer dan aykroyd is here too. >> i dont thing theyre a mass threat. >> larry: aliens from outer space. real threat to the human race? next on "larry king live." good evening. you could say this show tonight ...

>> larry: aliens from out of space, a real threat to the human life? next on "larry king live." >> larry: good evening. you can say that this show tonight is out of this world. john smithson is executive producer of "into the universe with stephen hawking." as is ben, both joining us from london. in their documentary astro physicist stephen hawking will join us later, warns that contact with extraterrestrial life may not go so well. watch 3 >> so if aliens ever visit us, i think the ou...

The argument logically, then he thinks that we would be wise to be -- to exercise caution when dealing with aliens. >> larry: so what do we do with this, john, other than entertain and inform us? whats the next step? >> well, what were trying to do with this -- you know, what is just so amazing about this subject, it just blew my mind. im not a scientist. my job is to make tv programs. what blew my mind is the huge scale of the universe. ill never look at the night sky the same way again. just d...

Science, definitive science 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 -- well, ben, you first. the tendency has been to kind of dismiss this, until mr. hawking arrived, as kind of kooky, right? >> maybe i...

Environment coming here? >> do i think -- i dont think you can really say. i think the only thing you can say is that you dont know. if you dont know, then caution seems to be the most sensible approach. im not one to call whether aliens will come here and stroke us and pet us or zap us with lasers. i think we just dont know, and therefore you cant really say -- you cant say one way or the other. you can think maybe caution would be a good idea. >> larry: stephen theorizes the negative aspect, d...

A computer recorded the signal as six letters and numbers. astronomer jerry ermin saw the letters and wrote one word in the margin. >> larry: this is a remarkable, remarkable entertaining feature that will air on discovery sunday. john smithson and ben bowie are the executive producers of "end of the universe with stephen hawking." this would be an opinion, ben. do you think we would be hostile or not hostile to another environment coming here? >> do i think -- i dont think you can really say. i...

Astro physicist stephen hawking says its possible, and issues a warning for all of us. stop trying to contact other life forms now, just in case theyre out there and theyre hostile. >> they are likely to be more advanced that us. >> hawking joins us, answering our questions, sounding the alarm. and believer dan aykroyd is here too. >> i dont belief theyre a mass threat, but theyre breaking the law. >> larry: aliens from out of space real threat to human life? next on "larry king live." >> larry:...

Ours. and were talking even if it is one in a billion, then there are billions of dollars. so were playing a big numbers game here. >> larry: john, was this fun to do? is he easy to work with? >> it was -- it was fun, but its probably the most complex and challenging program ive ever been involved with because youre dealing with the most ferociously complicated story, most ferociously complicated science imaginable, but we were trying to make it in a way that people like myself could understand....

Credentials to second guess professor hawking. im prepared to believe him because he is such a great scientist. and what we said about aliens in that program was very much what stephen hawking wanted to say. for years he had been lecturing about -- about lots of things, including the possibilities of alien life. what we were 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 t...

Brain-numbingly difficult, but also really good fun. and stephen 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. and there is something about that that i...