If our goal is to bring life to the universe, we may not need to send colonists to Mars at all, and certainly not to Alpha Centauri — at least not at first. We’re on a mission to terraform new worlds. But what if we could accomplish this simply by mailing our closest, neighboring star a kind of… cosmic seed packet? Richard Fuisz is a bioengineering graduate of Stanford currently working on a stealth DNA project. We talked about the purpose of life, and spreading it.
