He has devoted all his life to science. First of all, to understand it, but also to explore it.
Before he died, he warned humanity.
But if intelligent space in the room is found, Stephen Hawking is not sure what to put up. We should not contact anyone.
Like Columbus's train to America:
The statement falls into a new documentary film, where the astrophysicist talks about his favorite places in the universe.
Hawking believes we must be incredibly careful because there is a risk that foreign civilization will see us as weak, inferior and easy to conquer.
"If they do, they will probably not give us more value than we ourselves attach to bacteria," says the astrophysicist.
As an example, he uses Columbus's expedition to America. For the native, it was a first meeting with a technologically superior civilization that went less well.
We shout: "Look here!"
Throughout the last 50 years, we have repeatedly sent messages in space about where we are and who we are.
