Noted Scientist:”They were large objects that acted like the simultaneously dead-and-alive creatures of subatomic physics existing in a limbo between two simultaneous, contradictory states.”
Fed up Patriot: “What?! Quantum particles created by a laser being bounced off rhubidium to create Shrodinger’s Cat paradoxical stringlets?”
Noted Scientist: “That is what we hoped for but all we got when we fired the laser were progressive politicians!”