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Say -- you can't say one way or the other. you can think maybe caution would be a good idea. >> larry: stephen theorizes the negative aspect, does he not, john? >> he rightly thinks we should be cautious, and i'm not going to second guess professor hawking. but that is what is so intriguing, isn't it, about this whole subject? could there be life out there? if so is that just some sort of green gloop or is it something that is a real menacing threat. 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 l...

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? >> well, ...

astro physicist stephen hawking says it's possible, and issues a warning for all of us. stop trying to contact other life forms now, just in case they're out there and they're 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 don't belief they're a mass threat, but they're breaking the law. >> larry: aliens from out of 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 smithso...

And it is really the ultimate story. >> larry: let me get a break and come right back. >> fascinating. >> larry: we'll get a break and come right back with john smithson and ben bowie. stephen hawking is coming up. but first, how would we respond if alien life landed on earth? stay with us. when i grow up, i want to fix up old houses. ♪ [ woman ] when i grow up, i want to take him on his first flight. i want to run a marathon. i'm going to work with kids. i'm going to own my own restaurant. when i grow up, i'm going to start a band. [ female announcer ] at aarp we believe you're never done g...

Here. >> larry: 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 a while. but thankfully the answer was yes, i'd lo...