process and direct it towards their own goals, inspired generations of Russian scientists and led directly to contemporary transhumanism.Fedorov thought that the physical resurrection is to be brought about by restoring the body to a condition that existed prior to death. A person is made up of atoms, and when a person dies these (finitely many) particles are scattered. Resurrection of the person occurs as a consequence of restoring the atoms to their previous arrangement. To carry out the resurrection it is necessary to determine what this arrangement was and then to reposition the particles. This is a problem to be solved by science rather than by appeals to an outside power.His resurrection theory reflects 19th-century models of the universe and seems naive today. New technological resurrection theories based on contemporary science have been proposed, for example by R. Michael Perry [Perry 2000] and Frank Tipler [Tipler 1994]. But Perrys and Tiplers approaches, and mine, will probably seem equally naive to future scientists. Fedorov must be credited for the idea of technological resurrection, and we, his followers, are happy to see that many people are warming up to his vision. Following Fedorov, future scientists will scan the fabric of spacetime to find the dead, and bring them back to life.Of course the super-science of technological resurrection, perhaps based on weird quantum physics (the term Quantum Archeology is often used), may not be developed until a very far future, perhaps thousands of years. But why hurry? To us, subjectively, no time will pass between death and resurrection. In the meantime, the Cosmist philosophy can give us the positive, solar optimism that we need.Yuri Detail -by Tyler Jacobsonhttp://blog.directoryofillustration.com/author/tyler-jacobson/page/6/Nikolay Fedorov was the illegitimate son of a Russian nobleman called Gagarin Pavel Gagarin, Fedorovs father, was not related to Yuri Gagarin the first cosmonaut, but this is an interesting coincidence to say the least. The film shows many aspects and protagonists of the the Russian space program and the young Soviet icon and folk hero Yuri Gagarin, but its centered on Fedorovs ideas and legacy. In his cosmic garden Valery Borisov, a colorful Cosmist with a cowboy attire and an encyclopedic knowledge of Fedorovs life and times, explains Fedorovs ideas in a nutshell:Fedorov believed that science must help realize Gods plan for mans salvation and for the resurrection of mankind. Christ said: what I have created, you must create too and go further. What was it that Christ did? He rose from the dead. Literally, Christ was telling us to accomplish our own resurrection. Not to wait for some mystical event but to meet God halfway. Fedorov said if we resurrect everybody, they wont all fit on Earth. And he said wisely: In the Cosmos, abodes aplenty will appear. Thats why we need the Cosmos. The Cosmos offers empty planets where resurrected people will settle, and from there, direct the workings of the universe.The cover of the book "The Will of the Universe. Intellect Unknown. Mind and Passions" by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, 1928We follow Carey to ISRICA, the Institute for Scientific Research in Cosmic Anthropoecology in Novosibirsk,