28 Jul Stephen Hawking Confesses To A Fear Of Alien Invasion

Everyone is entitled to their irrational fears; whether you’re afraid of clowns, terrified of even the most innocuous of spiders or suffer from vertigo, we all have that one thing that scares us senseless. And when it comes to this breed of terror, it doesn’t matter how rational or educated you are. Certainly, I have ophidiophobia, a fear of snakes.

Whilst the cold-blooded creatures posed quite a threat to our ancestors back in the day, I know that we have little reason to fear them now, unless we willingly step onto Australian soil or take a stroll through the Amazon rainforest. But there’s just something about their scaliness, vertical pupils… oh, and the fact that they can be incredibly venomous, that puts me on edge.

I was made to feel a little better about my ophidiophobia, however, when I heard that even Stephen Hawking, the astrophysicist extraordinaire had his own irrational fear: aliens.

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