NewsBulukumba – The character of Professor Cuthbert Calculus in The Adventures of Tintin by Belgian cartoonist Herge was inspired by Professor Auguste Piccard.
This is the adventurer who is a scientist. In 1931, Auguste Piccard took a balloon to a height of 15781 m, not far above the cruising altitude of an airplane.
According to modern science, at high altitudes, the curvature of Planet Earth is still very thin and difficult to see, especially through the tiny peepholes through the capsule.
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In a magazine interview Popular Scienceit was reported that Piccard said that Planet Earth “looks like a flat disc with the ends turned upside down”.
While in his writings about his expedition, the word ‘globe’ which is interpreted as ‘spherical’ is also mentioned several times.
Quoted from Bbva Open Mind On March 24, 2017, as their oxygen tanks were running low, they drifted aimlessly over Germany, Austria, and Italy. 17 hours later, when they were presumed dead, they appeared on the Gurgl glacier in the Austrian Alps at an altitude of 1,950 meters above sea level.
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“The story of their adventure transcends fiction,” wrote the magazine Popular Science in an article in August 1931.
