Stephen Hawking Crashes Stag Do Of Nine Men Dressed As Bananaman (PICTURE)
Yes That IS Stephen Hawking Crashing A Stag Do Of 9 Men Dressed As Bananaman (PICTURE)
Sara C Nelson— Huffington Post UK
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That Stephen Hawking eh? You can’t do a thing without him trying to hog the limelight.
The Brief History of Time author recently gatecrashed a stag party of ten men dressed as Bananaman in his hometown of Cambridge.
Groom-to-be Chris Hallam had been out celebrating with his friends when they came across Professor Hawking and his son as they exited a car.
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Professor Stephen Hawking and nine Bananamen
The 71-year-old cosmologist agreed to pose for a souvenir photo with the group and at one point even looked as if he might join the party.
Hallam, 29, said: “We only came across him because we were lost. We were just looking for a bar and spotted him getting out of his car.
"His son was with him and asking him 'Should we ditch the meal and go out with these boys?'
"They could have just told us to carry on but they were all brilliant. It's been mad. People just keep saying 'I can't believe it, is it really him?"
Stephen Hawkings Most Provocative Quotes
(01 of11)
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"Women. They are a complete mystery."-- Stephen Hawking's response when asked by New Scientist what he thinks about most during the day (credit:Getty Images)
(02 of11)
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"The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. We are so insignificant that I can't believe the whole universe exists for our benefit. That would be like saying that you would disappear if I closed my eyes."-- Stephen Hawking in "Reality on the Rocks" TV series (credit:AP)
(03 of11)
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"If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans... We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet."-- Hawking in "Into The Universe with Stephen Hawking" TV series (credit:Getty Images)
(04 of11)
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"I have no idea. People who boast about their I.Q. are losers."-- Hawking's response when asked by The New York Times about his I.Q. (credit:Getty Images)
(05 of11)
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"Yeah, well, there are some people who spend an awful lot of time talking about the interpretation of quantum mechanics. My attitude -- I would paraphrase Goering -- is that when I hear of Schrödinger's cat, I reach for my gun."-- Hawking in the book "The Whole Shebang" (credit:AP)
(06 of11)
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"I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predetermined and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."-- Hawking in his book "Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays" (credit:Wikimedia Commons: NASA)
(07 of11)
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"What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary."-- Hawking in newsmagazine Der Spiegel (credit:Getty Images)
(08 of11)
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"The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away."-- Hawking on StarTrek.com (credit:AP)
(09 of11)
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"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the universe. That makes us something very special."-- Hawking in newsmagazine Der Spiegel (credit:Getty Images)
(10 of11)
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"I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars."-- Hawking in the Daily Telegraph (credit:AP)
(11 of11)
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"Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking."-- Hawking in a British Telecom advertisement (credit:AP)
Prof Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND), a disabling and incurable condition aged 21 and told that he had just two or three years to live.
Following a bout of pneumonia in 1985, he was placed on a life support machine which his first wife, Jane Hawking, had the option to switch off.
Recovering from the disease, Prof Hawking went on to complete his popular science best-seller A Brief History of Time, which sold more than 10 million copies worldwide.
Only 5% of people with the kind of MND he has - called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig's disease - survive for more than a decade after diagnosis.