"To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational," Hawking said. "The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like."

Stephen Hawking, since 1995, the man who has discovered more than 450 planets orbiting distant stars says beware of extraterresterial intelligent life.AFrom two-legged herbivores, yellow lizard-like predators, to glowing fluorescent aquatic animals they are probably out there, and they will probably take our resources if found.

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