Just out of curiosity, do you manage to avoid jello, make-up of any kind (for you or your spouse), shoes, fabrics, etc.?
I guess I can understand "doing the best you can," but it sometimes seems as though one can't be completely unhypocritically vegan and still live in the world.
I was vegan for three years. It's not at all hard to avoid animal products anymore.
Pangea has replacements for just about every kind of food, including Jello.
There are many makeup companies that make products without animal ingredients or testing. Not all of them are little speciality brands either - MAC is acceptable to vegans, and they're in every halfway-decent department store.
Vegetarian Shoes has all-vegan footwear, and if you like buckles and tall boots like me, Pennangalan Dreams can get most of their styles in synthetic material.
The only fabrics I'm aware of that are animal-based are wool and silk. I have a suit from Pangea made from synthetics that looks better and is more comfortable than anything I've worn made of wool.
I gave it up in the end because I wasn't getting something I needed in my diet, but I still avoid unnecessary animal products.
It sounds to me like he wants the engine to be able to say "okay, here's the textures for this level," but specify a "stack" of texture sets, with each one slightly different, so that when rendering ten trees, it cycles through that texture in the stack and they all have different leaf patterns or whatever.
Nothing could be further from the truth, as a good few hackers spent a month testing everything years ago.
I ran into similar lameness when I hacked the debug menus for the PS2 versions of Soul Reaver 2 and Defiance (available on my site, for the curious). As soon as you post something like that, people start cutting and pasting it into forums and websites as if that's the hard part. Some of them even get upset if you challenge them on it, along the lines of "dude i get credit for posting it here first."
Amusingly enough, a friend of mine in the UK took my work and used it to make similar things for the PC versions of the games, and a lot of people assume that *I* had something to do with that other than showing him how it worked on the PS2.
My method now is to make sure that before I tell anyone about a new hack, I post it on my site (which is up permanently), then post it on a couple of forums with timestamps so there's a definite record that can be looked up later.
Nice work on the SSBM codes. I think I'll actually pick up a copy of that so I can try them out =).
Remember, this was made 3 years ago, when a lot of that was still true. He's not making up fud. Back when he made it, lots of those problems were existant. Linux is much better off now, having improved greatly in the last three years (from last year to this year, a lot has changed even).
It's a lot better now, but part of the reason I thought this was funny (although I'd seen it long ago) was that I spent all night installing Ubuntu on a laptop I got for free when we cleaned house at work.
Pretty much everything on his list, I've done. I'm recompiling my kernel ATM to get my wireless card working.
Still much better than when I ran a web/mail server for a student newspaper on Redhat 6 though.
Shit. I live 2.5 miles from where I work. The entire city fits within a 20 mile radius, and this is a city of 300,000 people. What is wrong with your cities that they are so big and sprawly? Why are residential zones kept so far away from commercial zones (rather than mingled) to discourage alternative transportation?
I live about 2.5 miles from work as well, but that's because I rent an apartment.
In the major cities that I'm familiar with, people have long commutes because prices on actual houses less than 20-30 minutes from downtown are too expensive.
For example, in the neighbourhood I live in, a regular house averages US$500k-$700k. The nicer ones are obviously much more expensive.
It's not until you start getting into the 20-30 mile out areas that they drop down to US$250k-$300k. Most single-income families couldn't afford that either, so they're looking at another 10-30 miles depending on what they can. If someone is wanting to buy a house for $150k or less, they're going to be commuting over 100 miles, and yes there are some that end up doing just that.
When you lay a motorcycle on it's side, there's a hundred pounds of human flesh and blood acting as a wear plate, before you scratch the paint on the motorcycle.
Because, you know, motorcycle designers never thought of that and made parts of the frame stick out to prevent just that.
The main danger AFAIK with a bike is not it falling over, it's hitting something (or being hit *by* something) at high speed. Lose your head, get run over from the side, etc.
As an extra side bonus, when humans act as wear plates to protect the motorcycle, they are also helping with the culling process, improving the gene pool.
Everyone I know who rides or has ridden a motorcycle is pretty sharp:
- My dad (a mechanical engineer) when I was a kid - Three systems engineers I work with - A software engineer
I don't know if I'd ever own one myself (I don't get along with two-wheeled vehicles of any sort), but they're a *lot* of fun to ride on. It's the closest you can get to a speederbike in our era.
He's holding out for JCL.NET and Motorola68000-ASM.NET..NET is pretty neat. It has its shortcomings, but it's awesome that I can add things like MD5 hash and PNG export functions with five lines of code and one line of code respectively.
ASP.NET isn't bad either, especially compared to the pile of crap that was ASP before.NET.
Sony doesn't want homebrew games being released to keep developers happy and because it generates no income for them.
This is a stupid, shortsighted policy. It's like a retailer deciding not to allow returns because it costs them money.
Just like allowing customer returns increases profit in the long term because those same people will come back to buy other things, allowing people to play little homebrew games on their PSP would increase its value to potential buyers.
Are you saying your phone lines are still above ground on poles? Man I thought that went out over 30 years ago. You're quality of service must be horrendous.
Most of the US is like this, except for actual core metropolitan areas. I live about a 1/2 mile from downtown Seattle, and my phone and electricity are both from poles.
My understanding is that moving them underground is about aesthetics, not quality. It's a lot more expensive, and if you're in an earthquake-prone area I imagine it would be pretty awful to to and find the broken lines after one.
Even in geologically stable regions, underground wiring for large areas seems like a bad idea to me. Look at New York City and its electrified/heated-by-steam-to-branding-temperatur es manhole covers of death and destruction.
I think it could have been a a true classic 6-pack if he didn't cheapen it down so much -- like the last movie, the Burger King dude and Darth Vader, Vader selling M&Ms, ad naseum, I mean c'mon.
Please don't delude yourself into thinking that the original trilogy was any different. Have you never seen the Energizer ad where the bunny duels with Vader in the carbon freezing chamber? Or the Holiday Special?
It's not paint, it's the material they make movie screens out of. The same effect was used for the clothes the Kryptonians wear in the first Superman film.
And while it obviously doesn't literally "increase the intensity of the light," it does reflect it much more effectively than pretty much anything else you can capture on film. I wouldn't be surprised if it was partially flourescent, in which case you could increase the intensity of the visual-spectrum part of the light at the expense of the UV.
"Looking at this from the other point of view, with the ever-increasing data density on disk platters and a corresponding reduction in feature size and use of exotic techniques to record data on the medium, it's unlikely that anything can be recovered from any recent drive except perhaps one or two levels via basic error-cancelling techniques. In particular the the drives in use at the time that this paper was originally written have mostly fallen out of use, so the methods that applied specifically to the older, lower-density technology don't apply any more. Conversely, with modern high-density drives, even if you've got 10KB of sensitive data on a drive and can't erase it with 100% certainty, the chances of an adversary being able to find the erased traces of that 10KB in 80GB of other erased traces are close to zero."
Metroid IS backtracking. It's always been in the series.
It's always optional in the 2D games. I was mildly annoyed with the first Prime. The second, with its "explore the ENTIRE DARK WORLD with your new visor" thing, was just stupid.
I'm a totally crap game player, but all the GBA castlevania and metroid games were fairly straight-forward -- no mad skillz required -- had very well tuned difficulty curves, and certainly had no obscure puzzles. They were massively, incredibly, fun as well.
Seconded re: the 2D Metroid games (I've never been a huge Castlevania fan).
One of the best design features of the 2D Metroid games is that generally anyone can finish them, but they include a lot of optional content for the super-hardcore. With practice, I even made it through some of the ludicrous "shinespark" sections of the more recent ones.
IIRC, Nightmare, like the other bosses in the 2D games, can be defeated by figuring out the correct pattern to use.
This is in stark contrast to the Metroid Prime games (particularly the second one), where certain parts were designed for hardcore gamers and so are frustrating for people like me that just want to have fun.
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It looks like an artifact of either graphics compression or a glitch in the sensor data to me:
- The shapes are very angular, unlike everything else in the image.
- It's only there in the blue channel. If it were really present, there should be *some* trace of it in red or green, but if you remove the blue channel the shapes disappear.
- If I re-compress the image as a minimum-quality JPG, the amount of green "tendrils" dramatically increases.
My best guess is that it's a JPG artifact due to the extreme colour change at the rock/ice boundary.
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I'll show you some Canadian thug shit;)
Funniest thing I saw when I was going to university in Canada:
A mall store selling shirts and baseball caps with "South Central" embroidered on them in that gothic German "gangsta" font.
Yayuh, I'ma V-town SOLDJAH, foo. Straight outta South Central Richmond, rollin' up on tha Commercial Drive crew. Ready ta drop like a Quebecois separatist on yo ass. Chillin' wit a Molson in one hand, butta-tart inna othah. Yo.
What about a family with a mix of dual and single citizenships?
The US government doesn't recognize dual citizens. I moved to Canada with a girl who had dual Canadian/US citizenship years ago, and the advice she was always given while I was up there was to tell the US border people she was a US citizen and show them her US passport.
But yes, I imagine that a family like you describe would as a whole be treated as being as un-apple-pie-eating, freedom-hating as whoever was the furthest from being a US citizen.
Slashdot story comments aren't meant for blogging.
Yes my brother! We must use any means necessary to prevent the sacred Slashdot comments section from having its pristine state polluted by interesting anecdotes related in some way to the story!
Down with blackberry-picking drivel! Up with "In Soviet Russia" jokes and mandatory references to flatulence if there is even a tenuous connection to methane!
However, you imply that any critizism of Israeli politics or policy, or politics or policy connected to Israel, would be anti-semitic. That is BS.
Mod parent up.
I like Judaism. I am very good friends with a Jewish family. I'm nonreligious, but for an organized religion it has a lot of really great ideas and their ceremonies are beautiful.
I understand why many Jews wanted a country of their own after the holocaust.
This does not mean I must logically or ethically support the idea of Israel in particular, or Zionism in general.
Israel is located in literally the worst possible place for Jews to pick in the entire world. Every country on every side of them is full of people from cultures that not only haven't been able to get along with the Jews for millennia, but often can't get along with each other. Violently.
So now, because the founders of Israel wanted to be able to fulfill the prophecy of rebuilding the Temple that was destroyed on its original site, the US has to pour billions of dollars every year into that country to make sure it's impractical for the other Middle Eastern countries to invade.
Meanwhile, the Israeli government is so grateful for that assistance that it spies on the US.
Finally, the attempts to "settle" Israelis inside the occupied territories are just ludicrous. Imagine the reaction if the US had built heavily armed concrete fortresses for Americans to live in permanently in Japan, Germany, or Iraq.
here's two quarters, kid, get yourself a melody & some harmony.
Dear old people,
Rap music has had melodies and harmony for many years. Please stop pretending like it's still 1985. I know a lot of you listen to "soft rock" radio, and they're still exclusively playing music from back then, but the rest of the world has moved on.
Some recommended listening:
"Crunk Muzik" - Jim Jones "Move Bitch" - Lil Jon, The Triple-Six Mafia, etc. "Get Some Crunk In Yo System" - Trillville "Get Back" - Ludacris
Jim Jones even has another track ("Get From Round Me") that sounds like he was playing a lot of Metroid Prime at the time.
Someone who is more of a rap fan could probably provide a better list. I'm into industrial music, but I heard that stuff on the 24-hour evil gangsta radio station when I visited Memphis and thought it was great.
There's actually a lot of evidence that the missing dark "stuff" is different than any stuff we've ever encountered before.
My money is on it being the result of gravitons passing between branes. Every other explanation I've seen sounds rickety:
- Um, there's... lots of... stuff. That we can't see. No, really, it's invisible in the radio, microwave, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, x-ray, and gamma-ray bands.
- Mainstream physics is unable to see the truth of the gravimetreon particle because of dogmatic thinking! Fortunately I have discovered it using an apparatus modelled after eyewitness accounts of UFO engines!
- Jesus made dark matter to test your faith!
- Electric Universe!
- Buggy code in the Matrix!
- Quintessons! I mean Quintessence! Although Quintessence is very much like the Quintessons in that five-faced tentacled robots seem at least as contrived as "the quintessence field [having] a density which closely tracks (but is less than) the radiation density until matter-radiation equality, which triggers quintessence to start behaving as dark energy, eventually dominating the universe."
Am I missing anything?
I realize that m-theory is still untestable in a lab, but at least it provides a logical framework for understanding why something like this might happen.
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they do not subject their belief structure to any kind of real scrutiny
Maybe you just aren't looking hard enough.
they will not eat unfertilized hen's eggs which had no chance of being life
It's not the eggs, it's that the conditions that the hens that lay them live in.
but will kill a carrot plant to eat it
Because carrots have a brain and a nervous system, and are therefore wholly comparable to chickens.
even a simple hypodermic prick is too much for them.
Straw man? When I was a vegan I would have eaten cultured meat, especially if I was the source of the original cell sample.
Just out of curiosity, do you manage to avoid jello, make-up of any kind (for you or your spouse), shoes, fabrics, etc.?
I guess I can understand "doing the best you can," but it sometimes seems as though one can't be completely unhypocritically vegan and still live in the world.
I was vegan for three years. It's not at all hard to avoid animal products anymore.
Pangea has replacements for just about every kind of food, including Jello.
There are many makeup companies that make products without animal ingredients or testing. Not all of them are little speciality brands either - MAC is acceptable to vegans, and they're in every halfway-decent department store.
Vegetarian Shoes has all-vegan footwear, and if you like buckles and tall boots like me, Pennangalan Dreams can get most of their styles in synthetic material.
The only fabrics I'm aware of that are animal-based are wool and silk. I have a suit from Pangea made from synthetics that looks better and is more comfortable than anything I've worn made of wool.
I gave it up in the end because I wasn't getting something I needed in my diet, but I still avoid unnecessary animal products.
It sounds to me like he wants the engine to be able to say "okay, here's the textures for this level," but specify a "stack" of texture sets, with each one slightly different, so that when rendering ten trees, it cycles through that texture in the stack and they all have different leaf patterns or whatever.
Soul Reaver did that back in 1999. IIRC, Morrowind does as well.
Nothing could be further from the truth, as a good few hackers spent a month testing everything years ago.
I ran into similar lameness when I hacked the debug menus for the PS2 versions of Soul Reaver 2 and Defiance (available on my site, for the curious). As soon as you post something like that, people start cutting and pasting it into forums and websites as if that's the hard part. Some of them even get upset if you challenge them on it, along the lines of "dude i get credit for posting it here first."
Amusingly enough, a friend of mine in the UK took my work and used it to make similar things for the PC versions of the games, and a lot of people assume that *I* had something to do with that other than showing him how it worked on the PS2.
My method now is to make sure that before I tell anyone about a new hack, I post it on my site (which is up permanently), then post it on a couple of forums with timestamps so there's a definite record that can be looked up later.
Nice work on the SSBM codes. I think I'll actually pick up a copy of that so I can try them out =).
Remember, this was made 3 years ago, when a lot of that was still true. He's not making up fud. Back when he made it, lots of those problems were existant. Linux is much better off now, having improved greatly in the last three years (from last year to this year, a lot has changed even).
It's a lot better now, but part of the reason I thought this was funny (although I'd seen it long ago) was that I spent all night installing Ubuntu on a laptop I got for free when we cleaned house at work.
Pretty much everything on his list, I've done. I'm recompiling my kernel ATM to get my wireless card working.
Still much better than when I ran a web/mail server for a student newspaper on Redhat 6 though.
Shit. I live 2.5 miles from where I work. The entire city fits within a 20 mile radius, and this is a city of 300,000 people. What is wrong with your cities that they are so big and sprawly? Why are residential zones kept so far away from commercial zones (rather than mingled) to discourage alternative transportation?
I live about 2.5 miles from work as well, but that's because I rent an apartment.
In the major cities that I'm familiar with, people have long commutes because prices on actual houses less than 20-30 minutes from downtown are too expensive.
For example, in the neighbourhood I live in, a regular house averages US$500k-$700k. The nicer ones are obviously much more expensive.
It's not until you start getting into the 20-30 mile out areas that they drop down to US$250k-$300k. Most single-income families couldn't afford that either, so they're looking at another 10-30 miles depending on what they can. If someone is wanting to buy a house for $150k or less, they're going to be commuting over 100 miles, and yes there are some that end up doing just that.
When you lay a motorcycle on it's side, there's a hundred pounds of human flesh and blood acting as a wear plate, before you scratch the paint on the motorcycle.
Because, you know, motorcycle designers never thought of that and made parts of the frame stick out to prevent just that.
The main danger AFAIK with a bike is not it falling over, it's hitting something (or being hit *by* something) at high speed. Lose your head, get run over from the side, etc.
As an extra side bonus, when humans act as wear plates to protect the motorcycle, they are also helping with the culling process, improving the gene pool.
Everyone I know who rides or has ridden a motorcycle is pretty sharp:
- My dad (a mechanical engineer) when I was a kid
- Three systems engineers I work with
- A software engineer
I don't know if I'd ever own one myself (I don't get along with two-wheeled vehicles of any sort), but they're a *lot* of fun to ride on. It's the closest you can get to a speederbike in our era.
Where's pascal.net and cobol.net?
.NET is pretty neat. It has its shortcomings, but it's awesome that I can add things like MD5 hash and PNG export functions with five lines of code and one line of code respectively.
.NET.
He's holding out for JCL.NET and Motorola68000-ASM.NET.
ASP.NET isn't bad either, especially compared to the pile of crap that was ASP before
Sony doesn't want homebrew games being released to keep developers happy and because it generates no income for them.
This is a stupid, shortsighted policy. It's like a retailer deciding not to allow returns because it costs them money.
Just like allowing customer returns increases profit in the long term because those same people will come back to buy other things, allowing people to play little homebrew games on their PSP would increase its value to potential buyers.
Are you saying your phone lines are still above ground on poles? Man I thought that went out over 30 years ago. You're quality of service must be horrendous.
r es manhole covers of death and destruction.
Most of the US is like this, except for actual core metropolitan areas. I live about a 1/2 mile from downtown Seattle, and my phone and electricity are both from poles.
My understanding is that moving them underground is about aesthetics, not quality. It's a lot more expensive, and if you're in an earthquake-prone area I imagine it would be pretty awful to to and find the broken lines after one.
Even in geologically stable regions, underground wiring for large areas seems like a bad idea to me. Look at New York City and its electrified/heated-by-steam-to-branding-temperatu
I think it could have been a a true classic 6-pack if he didn't cheapen it down so much -- like the last movie, the Burger King dude and Darth Vader, Vader selling M&Ms, ad naseum, I mean c'mon.
Please don't delude yourself into thinking that the original trilogy was any different. Have you never seen the Energizer ad where the bunny duels with Vader in the carbon freezing chamber? Or the Holiday Special?
It's not paint, it's the material they make movie screens out of. The same effect was used for the clothes the Kryptonians wear in the first Superman film.
And while it obviously doesn't literally "increase the intensity of the light," it does reflect it much more effectively than pretty much anything else you can capture on film. I wouldn't be surprised if it was partially flourescent, in which case you could increase the intensity of the visual-spectrum part of the light at the expense of the UV.
That is complete bullshit. This guy obviously has not read Guttman's recent comments about this exact topic.
In fact, to quote Guttman himself:
"Looking at this from the other point of view, with the ever-increasing data density on disk platters and a corresponding reduction in feature size and use of exotic techniques to record data on the medium, it's unlikely that anything can be recovered from any recent drive except perhaps one or two levels via basic error-cancelling techniques. In particular the the drives in use at the time that this paper was originally written have mostly fallen out of use, so the methods that applied specifically to the older, lower-density technology don't apply any more. Conversely, with modern high-density drives, even if you've got 10KB of sensitive data on a drive and can't erase it with 100% certainty, the chances of an adversary being able to find the erased traces of that 10KB in 80GB of other erased traces are close to zero."
The reason that humans are considered different from other animals is that we are sentient.
And we know animals are not because... ?
Metroid IS backtracking. It's always been in the series.
It's always optional in the 2D games. I was mildly annoyed with the first Prime. The second, with its "explore the ENTIRE DARK WORLD with your new visor" thing, was just stupid.
I'm a totally crap game player, but all the GBA castlevania and metroid games were fairly straight-forward -- no mad skillz required -- had very well tuned difficulty curves, and certainly had no obscure puzzles. They were massively, incredibly, fun as well.
Seconded re: the 2D Metroid games (I've never been a huge Castlevania fan).
One of the best design features of the 2D Metroid games is that generally anyone can finish them, but they include a lot of optional content for the super-hardcore. With practice, I even made it through some of the ludicrous "shinespark" sections of the more recent ones.
IIRC, Nightmare, like the other bosses in the 2D games, can be defeated by figuring out the correct pattern to use.
This is in stark contrast to the Metroid Prime games (particularly the second one), where certain parts were designed for hardcore gamers and so are frustrating for people like me that just want to have fun.
It looks like an artifact of either graphics compression or a glitch in the sensor data to me:
- The shapes are very angular, unlike everything else in the image.
- It's only there in the blue channel. If it were really present, there should be *some* trace of it in red or green, but if you remove the blue channel the shapes disappear.
- If I re-compress the image as a minimum-quality JPG, the amount of green "tendrils" dramatically increases.
My best guess is that it's a JPG artifact due to the extreme colour change at the rock/ice boundary.
I'll show you some Canadian thug shit ;)
Funniest thing I saw when I was going to university in Canada:
A mall store selling shirts and baseball caps with "South Central" embroidered on them in that gothic German "gangsta" font.
Yayuh, I'ma V-town SOLDJAH, foo. Straight outta South Central Richmond, rollin' up on tha Commercial Drive crew. Ready ta drop like a Quebecois separatist on yo ass. Chillin' wit a Molson in one hand, butta-tart inna othah. Yo.
offtopic, no karma bonus.
What about a family with a mix of dual and single citizenships?
The US government doesn't recognize dual citizens. I moved to Canada with a girl who had dual Canadian/US citizenship years ago, and the advice she was always given while I was up there was to tell the US border people she was a US citizen and show them her US passport.
But yes, I imagine that a family like you describe would as a whole be treated as being as un-apple-pie-eating, freedom-hating as whoever was the furthest from being a US citizen.
Barcodes are almost impossible to tattoo well enough to be machine-readable, and will degrade over time. I have one on my forearm =).
Your idea about the dead-man's RFID was awesome though. I would be tempted to get one if it were available.
Slashdot story comments aren't meant for blogging.
Yes my brother! We must use any means necessary to prevent the sacred Slashdot comments section from having its pristine state polluted by interesting anecdotes related in some way to the story!
Down with blackberry-picking drivel! Up with "In Soviet Russia" jokes and mandatory references to flatulence if there is even a tenuous connection to methane!
=P
However, you imply that any critizism of Israeli politics or policy, or politics or policy connected to Israel, would be anti-semitic. That is BS.
Mod parent up.
I like Judaism. I am very good friends with a Jewish family. I'm nonreligious, but for an organized religion it has a lot of really great ideas and their ceremonies are beautiful.
I understand why many Jews wanted a country of their own after the holocaust.
This does not mean I must logically or ethically support the idea of Israel in particular, or Zionism in general.
Israel is located in literally the worst possible place for Jews to pick in the entire world. Every country on every side of them is full of people from cultures that not only haven't been able to get along with the Jews for millennia, but often can't get along with each other. Violently.
So now, because the founders of Israel wanted to be able to fulfill the prophecy of rebuilding the Temple that was destroyed on its original site, the US has to pour billions of dollars every year into that country to make sure it's impractical for the other Middle Eastern countries to invade.
Meanwhile, the Israeli government is so grateful for that assistance that it spies on the US.
Finally, the attempts to "settle" Israelis inside the occupied territories are just ludicrous. Imagine the reaction if the US had built heavily armed concrete fortresses for Americans to live in permanently in Japan, Germany, or Iraq.
offtopic, no karma bonus.
here's two quarters, kid, get yourself a melody & some harmony.
Dear old people,
Rap music has had melodies and harmony for many years. Please stop pretending like it's still 1985. I know a lot of you listen to "soft rock" radio, and they're still exclusively playing music from back then, but the rest of the world has moved on.
Some recommended listening:
"Crunk Muzik" - Jim Jones
"Move Bitch" - Lil Jon, The Triple-Six Mafia, etc.
"Get Some Crunk In Yo System" - Trillville
"Get Back" - Ludacris
Jim Jones even has another track ("Get From Round Me") that sounds like he was playing a lot of Metroid Prime at the time.
Someone who is more of a rap fan could probably provide a better list. I'm into industrial music, but I heard that stuff on the 24-hour evil gangsta radio station when I visited Memphis and thought it was great.
There's actually a lot of evidence that the missing dark "stuff" is different than any stuff we've ever encountered before.
My money is on it being the result of gravitons passing between branes. Every other explanation I've seen sounds rickety:
- Um, there's... lots of... stuff. That we can't see. No, really, it's invisible in the radio, microwave, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, x-ray, and gamma-ray bands.
- Mainstream physics is unable to see the truth of the gravimetreon particle because of dogmatic thinking! Fortunately I have discovered it using an apparatus modelled after eyewitness accounts of UFO engines!
- Jesus made dark matter to test your faith!
- Electric Universe!
- Buggy code in the Matrix!
- Quintessons! I mean Quintessence! Although Quintessence is very much like the Quintessons in that five-faced tentacled robots seem at least as contrived as "the quintessence field [having] a density which closely tracks (but is less than) the radiation density until matter-radiation equality, which triggers quintessence to start behaving as dark energy, eventually dominating the universe."
Am I missing anything?
I realize that m-theory is still untestable in a lab, but at least it provides a logical framework for understanding why something like this might happen.