I think [contacting an alien civilization] would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history of advanced races meeting more primitive people on this planet is not very happy, and they were the same species. I think we should keep our heads low.
— Stephen Hawking Contemporary

Black holes, cosmology

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On 'Anderson Cooper 360°' with Carol Costello.

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2004

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Shocking

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