TIL that Swiss Balloonist, Auguste Piccard, was the inspiration for both Professor Calculus, in the Tintin comics, and that Gene Roddenberry named Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek after him. en.wikipedia.org Submitted by es_price t3_y5surn on October 16, 2022 at 9:45 PM in todayilearned 29 comments 503
whiffitgood t1_isrktvg wrote on October 18, 2022 at 4:29 AM drat the luck it appears I am becoming trapped in the balloon Permalink 1
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