Could we turn Mars into Earth 2.0? Darpa is working on designer organisms to terraform ..
Channel: Aliens insider
Date: 2015-06-29

Could we turn Mars into Earth 2.0? Darpa is working on designer organisms to terraform the red planet
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Modifying a planet's atmosphere to make it habitable for humans could soon be a possibility, according to the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Darpa has announced it is developing terraforming technology in a bid to recreate the conditions needed for live to thrive.

It would see a number of organisms introduced to the Martian environment, making regions on the surface suitable for humans.
Alicia Jackson, the deputy director of Darpa’s Biological Technologies Office in Virginia, made comments alluding to the technology at a biotech conference on Monday.

‘For the first time, we have the technological toolkit to transform not just hostile places here on Earth, but to go into space not just to visit, but to stay,’ she was quoted as saying by Motherboard.

This ‘toolkit’ will involve genetically engineering organisms of all types, of which there are up to 30 billion on Earth.