Stephen Hawking Is Featured In Asteroids To Promote Galaxy Song Re-Release

Stephen Hawking is one of the great thinkers of his generation. Hawking is a renowned theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author, and is the director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at Cambridge University. And he now stars in a remake of one of the most celebrated arcade games, Asteroids.

The free downloadable game, conceived and produced by Monty Python, portrays Hawking zapping rocks with the faces of the comedians. Brian Edward Cox, another notable physicist, guest appears as the asteroid boss.

The game is intended to promote the release of a cover of the "Galaxy Song," originally on the soundtrack of "The Meaning of Life," a 1983 film by Monty Python. Hawking himself sings the new version. The wheelchair-bound physicist, who suffers from ALS, can only communicate with the assistance of a computer-generated voice.