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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 don't think you can really say. i think the only thing you can say is that you don't know. if you don't know, then caution seems to ...

Television, but they might pick up our very strong radars. look, if they have the technology to come here and actually threaten us, they long ago could have the technology to pick up our signals. they'll know we're here. >> larry: david, succinctly put, what do you believe? >> well, that's the whole point, larry. as an astronomer, as a science fiction author, i've been thinking about is the alien, discussing the alien with everybody i could for the last 50 years. and what i believe is that everybody is too strong in their beliefs right now. seti, the search for extraterrestrials is called the ...

But you can work out the cost of transport, and this would be like ordering a book from amazon and paying $6,000 for the shipping. we're not -- you wouldn't do that, and the aliens are not going to come here for that. could they come here for some other reason? possibly. but you know, david brin said that they might not pick up our television, but they might pick up our very strong radars. look, if they have the technology to come here and actually threaten us, they long ago could have the technology to pick up our signals. they'll know we're here. >> larry: david, succinctly put, what do you ...

>> 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 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 opin...