And we're making sure that this doesn't have any bad effect on the phytoplankton diatoms in the ocean.

我们还要确保这不会对海洋中的浮游植硅藻造成任何不良影响。

Diatoms take silicon and use it to form a natural porous shell around themselves.

硅藻吸收硅用它在自身周围形成天然多孔壳。

ROSS COEN: They look at the diatoms.

罗斯·：们观察硅藻。

ELISA BERGSLIEN: Put that all together, where would you find these diatoms, these minerals, that you wouldn't find coral?

ELISA BERGSLIEN：把所有这些放在一起，你会在哪里找到这些硅藻、这些矿质，而你找不到珊瑚？

Tiny fossilized skeletons of aquatic creatures called diatoms are swept into the wind and carried westward where they rain down on South America.

被称为硅藻的水生生的微小骨骼化石被风吹走西飘落在南美洲。

Mr. Bowler says almost half of the oxygen we breathe comes from very small algae called diatoms. These plants live in the part of the water where the sun reaches.

鲍勒说我们呼吸的近一半的氧气来自名为硅藻的微小藻类，这些植生活在太阳能抵达的水中。

Those plants and animals that do survive usually reproduce very fast and in great numbers. The single-cell plant, the diatom, can multiply itself into a billion new distoms in one month.

那些生存下来的植和动通常重新繁衍更快和更多的数量。单细胞植，像硅藻，能在一个月自己繁衍一百万新的硅藻。

They're diatoms: photosynthetic, single-celled algae responsible for producing oxygen and helping seed clouds on a planetary scale and with intricately sculpted, geometric exoskeletons made of -- yeah, glass.

它们是硅藻：光合作用的单细胞藻类，负责产生氧气在行星范围内帮助种子云， 具有由——是的， 玻璃制成的复杂雕刻的几何外骨骼。

Some of the critters I found were delightful things like seed shrimp and many more beautiful, geometric diatoms. I then went farther afield to camp out in the Dry Valleys for a couple of weeks.

我发现的一些小动是令人愉快的东西， 例如种子虾和许多更美丽的几何硅藻。然后我去了更远的地方， 在干谷露营了几个星期。