Orb

Orb or Orbs may refer to:

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Places and rivers

Orb (river), in southern France
Orb (Kinzig), a tributary of the Kinzig river in Germany
Bad Orb, a town in Hesse, Germany

Literature, radio, film, television

Orb Kaftan, a character from the Incarnations of Immortality novel series by Piers Anthony
Orb (comics), a Marvel Comics villain
"Orb" (Adventure Time), a television episode
Orb Publications, an Australian publishing company
- Orb Speculative Fiction, an Australian magazine
Orbs, sacred objects of the Bajoran species in the TV series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Orbing, a magical form of teleportation in the television show Charmed
Ultraman Orb, a 2016 Japanese tokusatsu television series
Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg, a former German public broadcasting organization

Music

The Orb, a British electronic music group
O.R.B. (band) (formerly The Original Rude Boys), an Irish acoustic group
Orbs (band), a rock group featuring members of Between the Buried and Me and Fear Before the March of Flames
Orb (Boiled in Lead album), 1990
Orb (Alastair Galbraith album), 2007
The Oak Ridge Boys, a country music group

Computing

Object request broker, a distributed computing concept
Orb (software), a streaming media application
Castlewood Orb Drive, a 3.5-inch removable hard disk drive
Oriented FAST and rotated BRIEF (ORB), an image processing method
Open Relay Behavior-modification System (ORBS), a defunct system for blocking suspected Internet spam sites

Celestial matters

Orb (astrology), a measurement of object interaction
Celestial orb, a central concept in ancient and early-modern astronomy

Transport

ORB, IATA code for Örebro Airport in Sweden
ORB, FAA code for Orr Regional Airport in Minnesota
ORB, Amtrak code for Old Orchard Beach station in Maine
ORBS, former ICAO code for Baghdad International Airport

Business

ORB International, a London-based polling agency
Orbital Sciences Corporation (former NYSE stock ticker: ORB)

Other

Organic radical battery, a type of rechargeable battery
Globus cruciger, an orb-and-cross symbol of Christian authority
- Sovereign's Orb, a Crown Jewel of the United Kingdom
The trademarked symbol printed on genuine Harris Tweed
O.R.B: Off-World Resource Base, a 2002 computer game
Orb web, a type of spider web
Orb (horse), the winner of the 2013 Kentucky Derby
Orb (optics), a type of photographic imperfection
Yard globe
"The orb", a symbolic object featured during the 2017 Arab Islamic American Summit

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gollark: The US healthcare system is just really quite broken and there is probably not some individual there who's just going "MWAHAHAHA, my plan to increase the price of healthcare has succeeded, and I could easily make everything reasonable but I won't because I'm evil!", or one person who could decide to just make some stuff free right now without introducing some huge issues. It's a systemic issue.

gollark: Yes, they do have considerations other than minimizing short-term COVID-19 deaths, but that is sensible because other things do matter.

gollark: The US government, and large business owners and whoever else ("capitalism"), don't really want people to die in large numbers *either*, they're:- still *people*- adversely affected by said large numbers dying, because: - if lots of people die in the US compared to elsewhere, they'll look bad come reelection - most metrics people look at will also be worse off if many die and/or are ill for a while - many deaths would reduce demand for their stuff, and they might lose important workers, and more deaths means a worse recession

gollark: That is stupid on so many levels. Is it meant to be some homepathic thing, where the blood is obviously even more worserer if they dilute it?

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