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Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
Mar 5, 2009 12:09 AMNov 5, 2019 7:15 AM

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Linking to The Sun makes me feel a little skeevy, but this is too funny not to mention: workers cleaning out a pond in England found a surprise: a Dalek! Evidently it was left over from a Doctor Who shoot some time in the past. All I ever find in the puddles in my back yard is stuff my dogs left. If there's a lesson in here I'm not sure what it is.

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