Stephen Hawking thinks that we'd be safest avoiding intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe (The Week in Higher Education, 29 April). This is unlikely to be a problem. If the life is genuinely intelligent, it will already be trying hard to avoid us.
John Foster, Department of philosophy, Lancaster University.
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