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 are the words of professor hawking. i don t have the scientific credentials to secondguess professor hawking. i m prepared to believe him because he is such a great scientist. and what we said about aliens in that program was very much what stephen hawking wanted to say. for years he had been lecturing about about lots of things, including the possibilities of alien life. what we were able to do for the first time using the wonders of computer graphics was to visualize with professor hawking hypothetically what they might
credentials to second guess professor hawking. i m prepared to believe him because he is such a great scientist. and what we said about aliens in that program was very much what stephen hawking wanted to say. for years he had been lecturing about about lots of things, including the possibilities of alien life. what we were able to do for the first time using the wonders of computer graphics was to visualize with professor hawking hypothetically what they might look like. that s what we re able to do 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
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 credentials to second guess professor hawking. i m prepared to believe him because he is such a great scientist. and what we said about aliens in that program was very much what stephen hawking wanted to say. for years he had been lecturing about about lots of things, including the possibilities of alien life. what we were able to do for the first time using the wonders of computer graphics was to visualize with professor hawking hypothetically what they might look like. that s what we re able to do
about aliens in that program was very much what steven hawking wanted to say. for years he had been lecturing about the about lots of things including the possibilities of alien life. what we are able to do, for the first time using the wonders of computer graphics, was to visualize with professor hawking hypothetically what they might look like. that s what we re able to do here. larry: ben, you did this come about? how did you and steven and john all get together and do this. well, discovery wanted to do a new siexciting show. we sat around the table a while and thought who best to do it? there isn t a bigger name than steven hawking. it was a very simple, short, short list for who we wanted to work with. then we pitched it to him, and you may know this even takes quite a while to respond to