On: Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

[blululu]

Russian Biocosmism is truly wild: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cosmism It makes modern SpaceX style futurism seem bland and sane by comparison. If you're interested a recent translation of some of the original texts came out about 5 years ago that is well worth a gander: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262037433/russian-cosmism/

[vsviridov → blululu]

Fedorivist "great common task" is a massive plot device of my favorite sci-fi trilogy The Quantum Thief, by Finnish author Hannu Rajaniemi.

[dmitriid → blululu]

They weren't afraid to dream on a grand scale.