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For the native americans. >> larry: john, you're producing the show. do you accept the theory? >> well, we -- we're working with one of the greatest living scientists, one of the best scientific brains in the world. and i'm not a scientist. my job on this series for discovery channel was to bring the views, the vision, the imagination of this great scientist to a mass audience. these interest words of professor hawking. i don't have the scientific

About him. and we just know that trapped in this body that he can't use is this quite brilliant brain. and there is something about that that is such a powerful and poignant image. it just seems to touch people. >> larry: thank you both very much, john smithson and ben bowie. the second part of this special will air sunday on discovery. we'll be back. we'll talk with stephen hawking and we'll meet an expert panel as well. stephen hawking in his own words, next.

Space real threat to 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 end of the universe with stephen hawking, . stephen hawk willing join us later. warns that contact with extraterrestrial life might not go so well. watch. >> 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 the native americans. >> larry: john, you're producing the show. do you accept the theory?

To questions. so we gave him our pitch, showed him the tape, and we had to wait a while. but thankfully the answer was yes, i'd love to do it. so that's how it got going. >> larry: john, are you surprised at the reaction it has gotten around the world? >> no, i'm not, because, you know, professor hawking is this distinguished academic, as we've said. but also, he wants to bring science to a new generation, to people around the world. and he is prepared -- everything he says of course is immaculately scientifically sourced. but he wants to entertain people. and by entertaining them, he wants to...

That's what we don't know. many better scientific minds than mine are obsessed with looking. i think you've got guests later who will tell us a lot more than. but it is just totally intriguing. it's been the subject of literature. it's been the subject of movies. and i think it someone of the most intriguing questions of all, which is why it's one of the questions stephen hawking himself wanted to deal with in this series. because it really is one of the big questions we all face. are we alone in this planet of ours. and we're talking even if it is one in a billion, then there are billions of ...