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
chadsexytime t1_ism67j0 wrote on October 17, 2022 at 12:40 AM Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the U-S-S Enterprise? Permalink 1 IAmQWhoAreYou t1_ismy257 wrote on October 17, 2022 at 4:29 AM No, the Stargazer one. Permalink Parent 3
IAmQWhoAreYou t1_ismy257 wrote on October 17, 2022 at 4:29 AM No, the Stargazer one. Permalink Parent 3
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