thisamericanfox

Utahn in The Yukon. Leaving Twitter, find me on Bluesky:

[SLCScanner @SLCScanner]

Vegetation Fire – Ogden, UT
A large brush fire is burning ~¼ mile up the mountain and 2+ acres in size near 1113 N Mountain Rd. Weber Fire units are on scene with more apparatus enroute and a strike team now requested.

Command reports the fire is getting very close to homes — crews moving into position for structure protection.

Video: Angelique Rivera
Pic 2: EnoughOak24
Pic 3: Marisa-Eric Garcia
Pic 4: DeRay Averett
#OgdenFire #WeberCounty #UtahWildfire

[NASA @NASA]

Welcome home Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! 🫶

The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end.

[Chris Combs (iterative design enjoyer) @DrChrisCombs]

ARTEMIS II AS SEEN BY THE OFFICIAL NASA CESSNA

THIS IS THE BEST LAUNCH VIDEO AND IT ISN'T CLOSE

[Chris Combs (iterative design enjoyer) @DrChrisCombs]

https://t.co/UJhDV3jVfb

[NASA Science @NASAScience_]

Right now, four astronauts are flying in space with their own personalized organ chips.

The AVATAR investigation is using bone marrow cells from each Artemis II crew member to study how deep space affects individual human health. https://t.co/Zm5c9bXolp

[NASA Science @NASAScience_]

Leaving Earth orbit, ✅. Next up: Finalizing the Moon observation plan.

Artemis II is both a test flight and a science mission. Astronauts, flight controllers, & science teams are working together to squeeze as much knowledge as possible out of the crew’s lunar flyby. ⬇️ (1/6)

[NASA @NASA]

The Orion spacecraft successfully separated from the upper stage of the rocket, and the "proximity operations" test is underway. The Artemis II astronauts are manually piloting Orion similarly to how they would if they were docking with another spacecraft.

[NASA @NASA]

“I’m the space plumber, I’m proud to call myself the space plumber.”

Mission specialists like @Astro_Christina train for all roles so they can jump in wherever they’re needed. Sometimes that means fixing vital machinery, like the spacecraft toilet.

[thisamericanfox @thisamericanfox]

@NASAArtemis Q: where is the SD card with all the peoples names? In someone’s pocket?!

[Stratolaunch @Stratolaunch]

History has been made by Stratolaunch, a hypersonic flight test research company headquartered in Mojave, California. The fully autonomous Talon-A2, equipped with landing gear, has successfully exceeded speeds of Mach five and completed its second autonomous landing at Vandenburg Space Force Base. This mission documentary follows the first recovered flight of TA-2, the result of five years of effort and dedication marking a pivotal moment in sustainable hypersonic flight test for our country. Congratulations to the Stratolaunch team and partners on this success! Next steps: fly TA-2 again and again, increasing the cadence of hypersonic flight tests for the United States. Stay tuned as Stratolaunch prepares to fly and land TA-2 once more.

[thisamericanfox @thisamericanfox]

@the_churchnews As a worldwide church, how come you don’t issue statements after school shootings?

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

Students were eating lunch when they heard the gunshots. It’s yet another horrific school shooting, and every time my heart breaks for the kids, parents, and communities shattered by gun violence.

We can’t stop demanding change. Congress can and must pass gun safety legislation.

[Whitehorse Weather Records🌤 @YXY_Weather]

During August 2025, #Whitehorse had 23 above median days and 8 below median days (by maximum temperature). #YxyWx

[thisamericanfox @thisamericanfox]

..the 3 B’s of bear safety,” he’d tell me. “Bear spray, bear banger, baseball bat. If they get too close, just bop ’em on the nose!” - The Forest Remembers by Trina Moyles
https://t.co/fvgiaxRz6O

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

An actual mountain on Jupiter’s moon Io
NASA

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

Clearest image ever taken of Venus

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

Night sky on Mars, around 140M miles away

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

Exoplanet...
The moment the glacier collapses in Switzerland and the aftermath

[Ipsos Canada @IpsosCanada]

Canada is once again seen as the most likely country/organization to have a positive influence on world affairs over the next decade. Check out our new polling for HFX for more #HFX2024👉 https://t.co/MOntS8SEkm

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Actually no. This misses the point of Jesus's Parable of the Good Samaritan (Lk 10: 25-37). After Jesus tells a lawyer that you should "love your neighbor as yourself," the lawyer asks him, "And who is my neighbor?"

In response, Jesus tells the story of a Jewish man who has been beaten by robbers and is lying by the side of the road. The man is helped not by those closest to him (a "priest" and a "Levite"), but rather by a Samaritan. At the time, Jews and Samaritans would have considered one another enemies.

So Jesus's fundamental message is that *everyone* is your neighbor, and that it is not about helping just your family or those closest to you. It's specifically about helping those who seem different, foreign, other. They are all our "neighbors."

But Jesus's deeper point can only be understood from the point of view of the beaten man: our ultimate salvation depends, as it did for that man, upon those whom we often consider to be the "stranger."