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Comment Re:Average lifespan is misleading (Score 1) 281

We tend to make the assumption that an average lifespan of 30 means that nobody lives past 35 years old

We who? I doubt anyone thinks that.

Otherwise I generally agree with what you way - median life expectancy of those who reach adulthood would be a far more useful statistic here.

Submission + - Numerous methane leaks found on Atlantic sea floor (sciencemag.org)

sciencehabit writes: Researchers have discovered 570 plumes of methane percolating up from the sea floor off the eastern coast of the United States, a surprisingly high number of seeps in a relatively quiescent part of the ocean. The seeps suggest that methane’s contribution to climate change has been underestimated in some models. And because most of the seeps lie at depths where small changes in temperature could be releasing the methane, it is possible that climate change itself could be playing a role in turning some of them on.

Submission + - Princeton nuclear fusion reactor will run again (nj.com)

mdsolar writes: Tucked away from major roadways and nestled amid more than 80 acres of forest sits a massive warehouse-like building where inside, a device that can produce temperatures hotter than the sun has sat cold and quiet for more than two years.

But the wait is almost over for the nuclear fusion reactor to get back up and running at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.

“We’re very excited and we’re all anxious to turn that machine back on,” said Adam Cohen, deputy director for operations at PPPL.

The National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) has been shut down since 2012 as it underwent a $94 million upgrade that will make it what officials say will be the most powerful fusion facility of its kind in the world. It is expected to be ready for operations in late winter or early spring, Cohen said.

Comment Re:What's the point? (Score 1) 511

There's zero chance that's going to be easier using a loosely typed language with porous ideas of module boundaries

Nonsense. The typical Java project is a big steaming mess of factory classes, wired beans, annotations, aspects, xml, and all the other workarounds that are needed to give the same functionality that's built into dynamically typed languages. And you still get logs overflowing with run time exceptions.

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