5. Darwin’s Idea of Terraforming

Year: 1840

Technology: Terraforming

Terraforming is the process of building or manipulating the environment to make it fit for the sustenance of life, which would have been otherwise impossible. This idea has not been implemented in a big scale apart from some sophisticated Green Houses.

How was it implemented?

For decades, Charles Darwin tried completely transforming a barren island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Along with close friend Joseph Hooker, Darwin experimented world’s first terraforming approach on this island consisting mostly of volcano rocks to bring life in.