Because it’s 2020: The team of scientists found four strange objects that they describe as “circular edge-brightened discs” which don’t correspond to any known object in the records. The team has named them ORCs, short for “odd radio circles,” and they’re eager to learn more about them.
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Lensed radio galaxies or other objects? What is their distance? Are they varying?
They’re like crop circles only farther away.
There will be a lawsuit from the JRR Tolkien family, or the Wingnut movie productions, for pilfering the name from the Lord of the Rings!
Gerryk – Thank God Tolkien didn’t question trans-women rights or they would have to cancel Lord of the Rings; books, movies, T-shirts, historical references, his bust at Oxford (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oxford_Tolkien.JPG).