Spiderbanana t1_ism6vlv wrote on October 17, 2022 at 12:45 AM

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

You forgot the part where same grandson circumnavigated the globe in a solar aircraft (well, technically be didn't since he didn't flew all the stages, but the airplane did)