Whenever, if we do ever inhabit multiple worlds, do you think that we should adapt the

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environment to us? ....or adapt to our environment? Lets take mars for example. If you had widespread colonists, give them slightly more co2 than on earth, continue adding more co2, and after several generations, we would have continued that process enough to develop the ability to breathe co2. Same thing for the temperatures. Like, when we migrated out of Africa, into Europe and Asia, we didn't turn Eurasia into Africa 2, we turned into Asians and Europeans. Adapted to less or more radiation, changed diets a little, etc. Should we terraform Mars and other worlds, or martiaform Humans?
I claim Europa
 
I think both terraforming planets and evolving new humans will be possibilities in the future, but we'd have to find a world very similar to Earth to adapt quickly. Of course, terraforming would also take a long time.

Additionally, there is a fundamental thermodynamic constraint. You can't extract energy from carbon dioxide alone. You'd have to create humans who could photosynthesize, using sunlight to make up the energy imbalance.

But even this is possible. The number of possible configurations of our genetic code is far, far greater than the number of humans that have ever lived. That means there are many 'undiscovered' types of humans. Or perhaps at some point, we'd stop calling them humans.
 
We have to adapt to the environment. In Jurassic park we tried to adapt the environment (Having all of the dinosaurs being females). The dinosaurs then had a gender switch allowing them to reproduce. (which does happen in certain species).

The environment is a non-linear environment, meaning that a little change can effect the outcome drastically. Nature has a way of taking care of itself. This planet has taken care of its self since formation, including surviving multiple asteroid hits.
 
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