Green Hills

In the science fiction of our fantasies of other worlds, especially Mars, we talk of “terraforming”. A term meaning to change a planet to be more “earth-like” for human habitation. It is highly unlikely we will have the technical capability to do so. Nor will we have the patience to wait millenniums for a process to unfold. Even with extrapolating our current rate of technical prowess a century ahead, we will not be capable of “terraforming”.  

But if our biological research continues at an arithmetic pace, we will likely be in an era of biological engineering renaissance. What is far more likely is that we would craft our own DNA with native entities of another world to allow survival in that environment without artificial means. We would also try to maintain as much of our earth-like original DNA unmodified as possible.  

I would think that the complete original DNA model would be encapsulated in the new species in some way so that it will always be available if needed. Perhaps it will be a string of archived biological code in a portion of the brain or some other critical organ. It would be replicated and passed on from generation to generation intact. 

I think an advanced entity would be even beyond this approach. I think they would seed space with dormant nano-like bots or spores. The bots or spores would activate whenever they reached a suitable environment. They would propagate in a “von Neumann” fashion. The bots or spores would form the infra-structure necessary and evolve creating what is desired, just like a stem cells. 

The seeds could travel dormant on solar winds in space for millions of years. It might be a case of the creation out living the creator.