# HG changeset patch
# User Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
# Date 1410150952 25200
# Node ID 46bc0f596b91526ed444d13c99e18b44bff9d235
# Parent  04394e3857e21b955d34364184fdf5d1a30b9e29
ideas from reading /life in the frozen state/.

diff -r 04394e3857e2 -r 46bc0f596b91 org/ideas.org
--- a/org/ideas.org	Thu Sep 04 16:03:29 2014 -0700
+++ b/org/ideas.org	Sun Sep 07 21:35:52 2014 -0700
@@ -31,6 +31,13 @@
 getting credit.
 #+end_quote
 
+- mars life :: we could engineer life that could survive on mars
+               (probably some non-vascular photosynthetic
+               poikilohydric creature like a lichen) by taking an
+               extremophile from Antarctica and evolving it in
+               increasingly Martian conditions. This could be an easy
+               start to a terraforming process. 
+
 - problem with Aubrey de Grey's ideas :: Aubrey de Grey says that we
      might be able to live forever by continually repairing our bodies
      at the cellular level -- he details 7 different mechanisms of