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Aaron

@MoogleHou

Tweeting all things Houston, video games, anime, comics, sports, science, politics, and cats.

 Houston, TX
Joined April 2021
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Few things I enjoy more than having VR-like game adventures with my wife when we play FF 14 together, even when it’s just decorating our in-game apartment or wandering the vast open world. If you decide to explore FF 14, I can vouch for the Aether / Jenova world & server.
FINAL FANTASY XIV (@FF_XIV_EN) profile pictureFINAL FANTASY XIV
@FF_XIV_EN26 Aug 2024
You get an aetheryte ticket to 1 of these 4 summer vacation locations… Where will you be heading? 🗺️ sqex.to/h2rHH
A screenshot of Costa del Sol, a beachside area in Final Fantasy 14. A small fishing dock with two beach chairs overlooks the coast with a coral reef and beach cabanas.

ALT A screenshot of Costa del Sol, a beachside area in Final Fantasy 14. A small fishing dock with two beach chairs overlooks the coast with a coral reef and beach cabanas.

A screenshot of Tamamizu, a small underwater encampment in Final Fantasy 14, showing a settlement surrounded by a pocketed air dome. The dome is lined with tall coral and surrounded by green floating lamps.

ALT A screenshot of Tamamizu, a small underwater encampment in Final Fantasy 14, showing a settlement surrounded by a pocketed air dome. The dome is lined with tall coral and surrounded by green floating lamps.

A screenshot of Radz-at-Han, a city in Final Fantasy 14, showing a large colorful stone gate and bridge within the landscape's high jagged cliffs.

ALT A screenshot of Radz-at-Han, a city in Final Fantasy 14, showing a large colorful stone gate and bridge within the landscape's high jagged cliffs.

A screenshot of Tuliyollal, a city in Final Fantasy 14. Several lodgings with red roofs and other structures are seen lining along the coast.

ALT A screenshot of Tuliyollal, a city in Final Fantasy 14. Several lodgings with red roofs and other structures are seen lining along the coast.

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Wonderful! 🐈‍⬛ 🐈 🐕
Houston Chronicle (@HoustonChron) profile pictureHouston Chronicle
@HoustonChronNov 8
Hundreds of dogs and cats found loving homes during a massive adoption event at Houston’s Reliant Arena this weekend. Some had spent their entire lives in shelters. houstonchronicle.com/news/ho…
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GIMLI, a lunar cave exploring robot. How exciting! Like the LOTR dwarf Gimli! The Moon Base will have a lot of missions paving the way for its founding. The Artemis program (+the legacy Apollo program) really have been huge for the modern age of human exploration of the Moon.
Lunapolitics (@PoliticsLuna) profile pictureLunapolitics@PoliticsLunaNov 7
A robot called GIMLI will explore a #lunar cave for a future #moon base, by Robin George Andrews in @newscientist newscientist.com/article/259… #Lunapolitics 🇺🇸
A robot called GIMLI will explore a lunar cave for a future moon base | New Scientist

A robot called GIMLI will explore a lunar cave for a future moon base | New Scientist

The race to build a moon base is ramping up. Columnist Robin George Andrews explores how NASA is preparing by sending a cave-hunting robot ahead of humans

newscientist.com
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Go, Escapade twins!
NASA Solar System (@NASASolarSystem) profile pictureNASA Solar System
@NASASolarSystemNov 6
Flyby #1 is happening tonight! 🔭 Where and when to see these Mars-bound spacecraft from your location: go.nasa.gov/4sFegAc
NASA’s Twin ESCAPADE Spacecraft to Slingshot Past Earth on Way to Mars - NASA Science

NASA’s Twin ESCAPADE Spacecraft to Slingshot Past Earth on Way to Mars - NASA Science

In a few days, NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) will perform a maneuver that no agency spacecraft has flown before —

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Artemis & Apollo are extremely important to me. All of NASA’s programs are, as are space programs & missions by other space-exploring nations worldwide (see the Hera planetary defense program by ESA today!). I truly hope Talarico & Cruz & Elon & NASA & Trump team up for NASA.
CNSPACE (@CNSpaceflight) profile pictureCNSPACE
@CNSpaceflightNov 4
Talarico’s closing speech: “We’re the state that put a man on the Moon”, invoking Texas's Apollo-era role. Texas did it in the Apollo era and will matter again for Artemis. Election is over. It would be something to see Elon and Talarico actually cross party lines to find common ground on space exploration programs.
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Hera’s eyes are on Didymos!
ESA's Hera mission (@ESA_Hera) profile pictureESA's Hera mission
@ESA_HeraNov 5
The European Space Agency’s Hera mission for planetary defence has acquired its first close-up of the Didymos binary asteroid system! 🛰️🪨🪨 esa.int/articles/about-us/di…
Main Didymos asteroid in space with largely shaded Dimorphos asteroid around it

ALT Main Didymos asteroid in space with largely shaded Dimorphos asteroid around it

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Beautiful, and one of the reasons I love my home city of Houston.
HOUmanitarian ™ (@HOUmanitarian) profile pictureHOUmanitarian ™
@HOUmanitarianOct 31
Anthony Bourdain seeing Houston in 2016: “Some people say make America great again. I say America was great all along. Some of us just forgot why... [But] in some places in America, apparently you are still welcome. Welcome, stranger. This land is your land.”
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Finished burying Tuxie. He will be sorely missed. He was one of the most loving and remarkable cats ever. Rest peacefully now, my dear friend.
Image from Aaron (@MoogleHou)
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He’s gone.
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Another great Hera 🦚 moment. Arrival is still on track. ☄️
ESA's Hera mission (@ESA_Hera) profile pictureESA's Hera mission
@ESA_HeraOct 23
Hera’s second braking manoeuvre yesterday proved successful, reducing the spacecraft’s velocity relative to the Didymos and Dimorphos system by 70 m/s from a distance of 2300 km away. Some 90% of the 31-minute thruster firing took place in the early morning, followed by a cross-check of performance, with the remaining 10% occurring that afternoon. Hera is now moving at 20 m/s relative to the asteroids; a trio of smaller ‘transition’ manoeuvres this coming week will reduce Hera’s relative velocity down to near zero. hera.esa.int/
Hera spacecraft flying through space

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There are so many innovations that could make it practical to do animal rescues safely and efficiently. This is a good one. More of this, please.
CBS News (@CBSNews) profile pictureCBS News
@CBSNewsOct 22
A custom remote-controlled pipe crawler was used to rescue a kitten trapped inside a storm drainpipe in West Valley City, Utah, earlier this month. Officials said, “R2D2 is usually used to inspect pipes, but now it can add ‘kitten rescuer’ to its list of functions.”
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Thank you for the sympathies as we provide hospice care to our princely tuxedo cat. He’s so special. He has always rushed to the side of any person or pet that has cried out or become ill, every time. He escorts all of us around the home. Now we escort him through his last days.
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He seriously should have been born as a sheep dog the way he behaves. It’s difficult to imagine him not being around the house walking us back and forth. We love him dearly. We call him Tuxi, but his nickname is Sir Tuxford. Gummi Bears reference.
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One of our indoor babies, a very distinguished tuxedo gentleman and self-appointed sheepdog of the humans and dogs and cats of the house, is in his final hours. I was not prepared for this again.
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There are days when I feel like we as a human species are the misaligned ones.
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Congrats to Hera 🦚!
ESA Operations (@esaoperations) profile pictureESA Operations
@esaoperationsOct 7
🚨🚨🚨On its second birthday in space, ESA's Hera mission for planetary defence has spotted its asteroid destination for the first time, from an approximate distance of 236 500 km away! The Didymos system is actually two asteroids, seen as a single pixel for now esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Image…
A boxed pixel in a starfield with a close up bottom right

ALT A boxed pixel in a starfield with a close up bottom right

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This is adorable. Who wouldn’t want to feed Clifford??
Potawatomi Zoo (@PotawatomiZoo) profile picturePotawatomi Zoo@PotawatomiZooOct 3
Even though he’s getting so big now, our red panda cub, Clifford, is still mostly just a baby! He’s currently being weaned off milk, so he gets fed twice a day by staff. His milk includes some of the pureed food the adult red pandas get, and he gets plenty of bamboo!
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This is too adorable.
Philly Zoo (@phillyzoo) profile picturePhilly Zoo@phillyzooOct 1
Getting squeaky clean! 🛀🦔 Our tenrec, Castiel, takes baths with sand or dirt to keep his spines and skin clean. In the wild, this behavior also helps to remove any debris or pests!
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This really is a wondrous view.
European Space Agency (@esa) profile pictureEuropean Space Agency
@esaSep 30
Our Smile mission is ready for science. Its ultraviolet camera has already captured this substorm rippling through the northern lights around Earth’s North Pole. Smile will study how Earth responds to the solar wind, helping us better understand space weather. Read more: esa.int/Science_Exploration/…
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This Batfish. It. Has. A. Smiley. Face. 🤯
NOAA Ocean Exploration (@oceanexplorer) profile pictureNOAA Ocean Exploration@oceanexplorerSep 30
More awww than eek, this batfish is the perfect subject for our October desktop wallpaper calendar. Download it today and let the Halloween countdown begin! oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/multi…
October calendar featuring a batfish on a sandy seafloor. The NOAA Ocean Exploration logo is in the lower left corner.

ALT October calendar featuring a batfish on a sandy seafloor. The NOAA Ocean Exploration logo is in the lower left corner.

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I love this amber bear!
Alison Fisk (@AlisonFisk) profile pictureAlison Fisk
@AlisonFiskSep 27
✨An ancient and magical amber bear✨ Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows a small and ancient figurine of an amber bear carved some 10,000 years ago during the Danish Mesolithic period. The museum lighting makes the amber glow translucent orange against a dark display case background. The bear is displayed on a small metal stand viewed in profile facing right. The ears, muzzle, and mouth are defined. The neck has a polished groove suggesting it was once suspended on a cord. The characteristic shoulder hump of a brown bear is clearly defined. There are some finely incised horizontal lines along the belly. The legs are incomplete. Length 6.5cm. It was found in 1991 on a west coast beach of the Danish North Sea island of Fanø. It is one of a small number of amber animal figurines from the Baltic Sea region dated to the Mesolithic period.

ALT My photo shows a small and ancient figurine of an amber bear carved some 10,000 years ago during the Danish Mesolithic period. The museum lighting makes the amber glow translucent orange against a dark display case background. The bear is displayed on a small metal stand viewed in profile facing right. The ears, muzzle, and mouth are defined. The neck has a polished groove suggesting it was once suspended on a cord. The characteristic shoulder hump of a brown bear is clearly defined. There are some finely incised horizontal lines along the belly. The legs are incomplete. Length 6.5cm. It was found in 1991 on a west coast beach of the Danish North Sea island of Fanø. It is one of a small number of amber animal figurines from the Baltic Sea region dated to the Mesolithic period.

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