Monday, March 6th, 2023 - TrickJarrett.com: Semper Ad Meliora

"The mission to discover if Jupiter’s moons support life"

But the biggest surprise was the amount of water that the theoreticians needed to account for the signals: more than twice the amount of water found in all of Earth’s oceans. Because Europa is only a quarter of Earth’s diameter, the water must be spread around the moon in a global ocean, 25 to 95 miles deep, beneath a 10- to 15-mile-thick ice crust.

A fascinating read. The idea of living on a moon of Jupiter's is still probably science fiction, but it's fascinating to learn more. And what we learn impact our ability to live on other planets as well.

I had no idea about the amount of water on Europa!

3/6/2023 8:44 am |

| Tags: science, space, jupiter

Preliminary data for pedestrian fatalities by State

The data analysis found that the recent increase in pedestrian deaths is even more alarming when looking back to 2019, the last pre-pandemic year. Pedestrian deaths have surged 18%, or 519 additional lives lost, between the first half of 2019 and 2022 (see data chart below). Nationally, there were 1.04 pedestrian deaths per 100,000 people in 2022, up significantly from 0.90 in 2019.

The state with the highest pedestrian fatality rate is Florida at 1.99 of 100,000.

3/6/2023 5:42 pm |

| Tags: walking, pedestrian