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Our patience has a limit. when the u.s. does not respect u.n. security council resolutions. and when europe displays an inability to act in the only way shall be to rely on national dignity pride and strength. millia whoredom on ause the iranian president addressing the un general assembly a short while ago joining us now from washington is ben and ben tell the blue of the foundation for defense of democracy in washington d c a think tank that recommends hardline iran policy yes sir welcome to the show what did you make of president rouhani statements. thanks for having me and great to be with...

>> 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 outcome would be much as when christopher columbus first landed in america. which didn't turn out very well for ...

Qualified to answer that, but i don't 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? >> i think that -- you know, maybe it's been overstated slightly from what he actually says in the film. what he says in the film is that if intelligent aliens exist -- that a big if -- and if they were to meet us -- that's another big if -- then we might be wise to treat them with caution. it's not stephen saying as far as i know in any way, stephen is not saying aliens are coming, we've got to hide under the...

People around the world. and he's prepared -- everything he says of course is immaculately scientifically sourced. but he wants to entertain people. and by entertaining them, he wants to interest them in science. you know, every -- this was done really incredibly closely -- we've been working with stephen hawking for three years on this. and he really did want to somehow popularize his views, the universe inside his mind. so i think he lept atta 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...

Look like. that's what we're able to do here. larry >> larry: ben, how did this come about? how did you and stephen and john all get together and do this? >> well, discovery wanted to do a new and exciting show on cosmology. and so we sat around the table for a while and thought who best to do it. and there isn't a bigger name than stephen hawking. so it was a very simple, very, very short list of who we wanted to work with. and then we pitched it to him. and you may know that stephen takes quite a while to respond to questions. so we gave him our pitch, showed him the tape, and we had to wait...