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Brodie Friesen 🧊𓅃 @brodiefriesen.xyz · 29d

I have Pekins and Emdens and if the Emdens heard somebody calling them a duck they’d probably break their knees

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Brodie Friesen 🧊𓅃 @brodiefriesen.xyz · May 13

The 14 in the brooder at the moment

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Brodie Friesen 🧊𓅃 @brodiefriesen.xyz · May 13

14 in the brooder, 5 out in the incubator, 2 going to be out within an hour, and several more who are zippering. It’s day 28 today.

Brodie Friesen 🧊𓅃 @brodiefriesen.xyz · May 13

1 more in the incubator out, two more who I’ve seen their faces, and probably half a dozen pipped. Day 27…

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Brodie Friesen 🧊𓅃 @brodiefriesen.xyz · May 13

1 more in the incubator out, two more who I’ve seen their faces, and probably half a dozen pipped. Day 27…

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Brodie Friesen 🧊𓅃 @brodiefriesen.xyz · May 12

A month of calcium imprisonment has made these very angry babies!! So far at least two out, 3 zippering, and 3 or more additionally pipped. Chaotic in the incubator right now.

Brodie Friesen 🧊𓅃 @brodiefriesen.xyz · May 12

Volume on!! Someone is alive and escaping… actually almost everyone is, these ducks and geese are emerging on day 26 which is 2 days early!!! So far one goose egg pipped, half a dozen or more duck eggs.

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Brodie Friesen 🧊𓅃 @brodiefriesen.xyz · May 12

Volume on!! Someone is alive and escaping… actually almost everyone is, these ducks and geese are emerging on day 26 which is 2 days early!!! So far one goose egg pipped, half a dozen or more duck eggs.

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Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱 @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · Apr 27

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Jim Stalnaker 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jstalnaker1.bsky.social · Apr 27

ROK really needs to start arming Ukraine, they have one of the strongest defense industrial bases in the first world

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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · Apr 28

Just because 99/100 scientists agree that it's bad to open a portal to the hell dimension doesn't mean we should immediately discount the opposing views of the scientist employed by Open A Portal To The Hell Dimension Inc.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · Apr 28

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One couple at a voting station in Port Credit said they would rather not speak to American media.
They then apologized three times.
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Brodie Friesen 🧊𓅃 @brodiefriesen.xyz · Apr 28

All electronic components remain functional and with a new shell the CanSat could be reflown. Pretty impressive for a partially deployed chute from 1000m.

Brodie Friesen 🧊𓅃 @brodiefriesen.xyz · Apr 28

Another revelation was that we built no way to safely shut down the auxiliary computer- the Milk-V Duo would’ve corrupted the image directory as it did any way we tried to turn it off.

Secondary mission was demonstrating the Milk-V Duo for usage in high-g environments, which did not occur.

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Brodie Friesen 🧊𓅃 @brodiefriesen.xyz · Apr 28

All in all it was a good test flight… hopefully the launch campaign will not use double deckers next year. We believe that had we not liberated a battery on deployment, our flight states would’ve autonomously deployed the chute and carried out primary mission data collection successfully.

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Brodie Friesen 🧊𓅃 @brodiefriesen.xyz · Apr 28

We believe we were involved in that mess, swinging wildly and striking either the other sat or the carrier rocket at least once. This split our fuselage and allowed a battery to eject. All components came down together, incredibly. The comanifest on the double decker lost their chute.

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Brodie Friesen 🧊𓅃 @brodiefriesen.xyz · Apr 28

The analysis shows that the cause of the power loss was a battery retention issue caused by collision with another object during deployment. We flew on a novel “double decker” which put our can right in front of another one, which was found to have tangled with the carrier rocket shock line.

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Brodie Friesen 🧊𓅃 @brodiefriesen.xyz · Apr 28

The kicker solenoid was still stowed, so at no point did we hit state 3 despite multiple attempts to manually issue the state change command from the ground. Thankfully, aero forces ripped the chute from the parachute bulkhead and it unfurled without issue. Descent rate appears to have been good

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Brodie Friesen 🧊𓅃 @brodiefriesen.xyz · Apr 28

No data was transmitted or stored during the flight, but the image files and subsequent flight state analysis show that the can likely switched from state 0 to state 1, and state 1 to state 2. Our acceleration thresholds and state change logic worked.

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Brodie Friesen 🧊𓅃 @brodiefriesen.xyz · Apr 28

Completely neglected to inform the Skitter of the flight outcome!!

We received telemetry while on the pad, lost lock on the way up, and then silence. Based on the presence of corrupt image files we believe that the can was powered through ascent, but lost it at deployment from the carrier rocket.

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Brodie Friesen 🧊𓅃 @brodiefriesen.xyz · Apr 24

40-odd babies coming out in ≈3 weeks??? Hold the line

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Brodie Friesen 🧊𓅃 @brodiefriesen.xyz · Apr 24

GPS remains inop. Lots of ground support equipment coming with.

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Brodie Friesen 🧊𓅃 @brodiefriesen.xyz · Apr 23

Rangefinder is functional. Essential flight systems are go for launch at L-4 days. Hardware and software supporting critical systems are tested working with only GPS remaining inoperative.

This Cansat will work!!!! Hopefully. Livestream on April 26th…

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Brodie Friesen 🧊𓅃 @brodiefriesen.xyz · Apr 17

Forgor to mention there’s like 40 new birds on my table cooking… don’t expect all to be fertilized but might as well try for some new geese and cool duck combos

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The Dreaded Abighoul @popeguilty.bsky.social · Apr 16

"I am literally the bad guys from the extremely popular superhero comics" is uh a take

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Brodie Friesen 🧊𓅃 @brodiefriesen.xyz · Apr 14

cc @avnisoma.bsky.social @charlieangus104.bsky.social

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Brodie Friesen 🧊𓅃 @brodiefriesen.xyz · Apr 14

If it looks like I’m particularly awkward it’s because I looked up from my phone and immediately got clipped by Avni

Charlie Angus was cool to see. Amazing to be among a group of engaged and enthusiastic folks and a gifted lot of candidates.

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Brodie Friesen 🧊𓅃 @brodiefriesen.xyz · Apr 13

Watching “A Minecraft Movie” felt like disaster tourism

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