Loki was the Norse God of trickery and mischief. Quasars are enormously bright point-like optical objects, often shining with an intensity many hundreds of times that of an entire galaxy. It is believed that quasars are powered by gas and the remnants of stars spiraling into black holes that have masses of millions to billions of times that of our Sun. It is also believed that quasar's may be the bright light in the center of distant galaxies. Quasars are the furthest known object from planet Earth in our universe. And as for the "1701" in my email address...well, that means something too, but I am not going to say what. Any guesses??