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this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2026
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The Russian Cosmists have so much to answer for.
My parents got super into the spinoff of For All Mankind that takes place in the Soviet Union, "Star City". The central conceit of that alternate history spate of shows is that Sergei Korolev didn't die and kept being as awesome as he was at running the Soviet space program. In the spinoff the writers actually knew a bit about what they were doing, and have him more or less directly quoting cosmists at other characters... I got to tell my parents that its people like him that are the reason their new laptop was expensive and that the oligarchs think they're going to live forever as feudal lords of the solar system and that our society as a whole has a tendency to falsely believe our destiny is endless expansion and perfection in space rather than Earth.
I'd never really looked into the name before but I just now realized what the Korolev was likely named for
Deserves it. The Soviet and Russian space agencies have been coasting on his work for half a century. On the wall of the Russian segment of the ISS, they have three portraits: Korolev, Gagarin, and Tsiolkovsky.
Every Korolev needs a crew of Glushkos to figure out shit he was actually hired for
Heh. Read the actual full paper.
Kardashev didn't even think that colonizing whole galaxies was the likely end state! He thought that instead everything from billions of light years around would pile into individual huge artificial monolithic structures for efficiency!