What happened
A 19th-century Moscow librarian, Nikolai Fyodorov, is credited with laying the groundwork for the transhumanist project, according to Glenn Beck. Fyodorov believed that death was the enemy of humanity and that science should be used to unite people in the quest to stop death. He proposed gathering the atoms of every human who had ever died to resurrect all generations, and suggested colonizing space to create room for the risen dead.
Fyodorov's ideas influenced notable writers such as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, and he also mentored Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a deaf and rejected boy who would go on to become a prominent figure in Soviet rocketry. Fyodorov's vision later gained a scientific vocabulary through the work of Jesuit paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin and Russian geochemist Vladimir Vernadsky, who coined the term
