Delayed until 2025-01-12, for now.
Somehow at the time I missed that story from 2022 that they linked to:
Wild stuff! Who knew that building rockets just requires pluck and a willingness to take big risks, rather than book-smarts (such an accurate understanding of history) and prudent safety practices?
I curated an exhibit on flight a number of years ago, at our main library, and before the exhibit was pared down, I was considering rocketry as well, and various staff were helping pull together materials. The gallery curator said “I even found something about a crazy guy who was launching rockets from his back yard!” accompanied by laughter. I said “You mean Robert Goddard, the father of American rocketry?”
WRONG!
Fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red uniforms - oh damn!
One of my favourite “sciencey” youtube channels; Anton Petrov
So instead of capture by atmospheric drag, it’s capture by cryospheric drag?
I don’t think so; I think the theory is that they just collided for no particular reason. No drag of any kind, just on intercepting orbits.
Their adventures read like that of idiot YT influencers who believe that they are invincible up until they become dead Darwin Award winners.