Congratulations to all those on the Solar Impulse project, and congratulations to our making a giant step toward saving our home planet.
(I love the fact that one of the pilots and a driving force behind the project is named “Piccard,” as in Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship Enterprise. Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg truly have “gone where no man has gone before.”)
Watch the video of the landing below or at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7jnzzx5y1c.
When I saw the video clip on this, in reference to the Picard name, it was this family that Jean-Luc Picard became the name of Captian Picard on The Next Generation. Its an awesome accomplishment!!
There’s a difference of a letter in the two names: 1 “c” in the Star Trek captain, 2 in the Impulse pilot. Even so, the similar name struck me as cosmically significant. But then, I can see symbolism in a pile of excrement….