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Chas Newkey-Burden

Aliens could be spiders the size of elephants

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Aliens could be spiders the size of elephants, according to Richard Dawkins. During an online Q&A, the famous atheist said that if aliens came from a similar planet to Earth they would probably look like humans, but if they came from somewhere with a “much weaker gravitational pull”, they could be “animals the size of an elephant built along the lines of spider”. The prospect is a “nightmare scenario”, remarked the Daily Star.

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