Image: From Tsiolkovsky’s 1933 paper “Album of Space Travel”, manuscript page 55, drawing of a greenhouse in space. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tsiolkovsky_Album_55.jpg Tsiolkovsky (1857–1935) was one of the earliest rocket scientists and major proponent of Cosmism. Something of a recluse for much of his life, as well as being deaf from the age of 10, he was a self-taught scientist who as early as the 1880s was designing airships, multistage rockets, space stations and spacecraft. He met Federov in a library and became an early adherent to the latter’s ‘philosophy of the Common Task.
What will happen when we find out how to not only live forever, but also how to bring the dead back to life? Find out how such scenarios were being dreamt up during the Cosmism movement in the early 20th Century.
I remember my dad making me believe the Russians had turned the moon red. “A blood red commie conspiracy,” he chuckled. This was back in the day, pretty much the last days of the Soviet empire, when, if…
