Darmok47 t1_ismq8rn wrote
Reply to comment by ramriot in 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. by es_price
Kind of funny that the branch Jean-Luc Picard came from were Luddites who didn't believe in using 24th century technology like replicators (or, tragically, fire supression systems).
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