Re: Stephen Hawking is a loon!
Further to this exciting observation by the great and mighty, electronic equipment will be used to listen to ..mmm..the spaceship...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-42329244
I wonder if they will pick up some poetry? Although not the best poets in the Universe I am rather fond of the works of the Azgoths of Kira. During a recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem "Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning", four of the audience members died of internal hemorrhaging and the president of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived only by gnawing one of his own legs off.
I wish our scientists luck in their endeavours, even if they are Loons