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? >> i'm not -- i'm not sure i'm qualified to answer that, but i don't think so. >> larry: john -- no, ben, you first. the tendency has been to kind of dismiss this until mr. hawking arrived as sort of cooky. he says if intelligence aliens exist and they were to meet us, that's another big if, we might be wise to treat them with caution. it's not steven saying, as far as i know anyway, steven is not