This was an answer in Article Commentary but I believe it belongs here:
The Earth billions of years ago did not design life to suit its environment of the time. Life reworked and designed the environment to suit life. In [in-space] colonization we will be designing environments to suit life and facilitate our needs and wants, not the other way around. Life will continue to be technically inventive and creative with matter masses, energies, spaces, and time, not trying to fit life to fit into the severe limitations of what is there.
The Earth billions of years ago did not design life to suit its environment of the time. Life reworked and designed the environment to suit life. In [in-space] colonization we will be designing environments to suit life and facilitate our needs and wants, not the other way around. Life will continue to be technically inventive and creative with matter masses, energies, spaces, and time, not trying to fit life to fit into the severe limitations of what is there.
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