FUTURE
The Secret Story of Diatomea Feeding Us Guts & Glory Education
Biology & a Goddess with a future vision
We live in superficial times. It’s as if living in cities made us dumb and left us clueless. We have no connection to our planet anymore. No bare feet in the grass. No swimming in the seas.
No singing in the rain and drinking in her glory of rainbows.
We really have no idea about the fact that we are spinning at 1670 km per hour through the universe. Glued with our feet to the surface with gravity.
So, let me tell you a little story about Diatomea. She’s the one with a million faces. A tiny microbial algae that is taking care of 20% of the oxygen production on our planet. Our breath. Every 5 breaths, we swallow her. And she tastes yummy. Because without her we would die.
She captures CO2. And feeds the planet. Whales and rainforests alike.
Diatomea travels light. She lives in the desert first. Her feet are scorched by the hot sand waves. Making patterns. And changing patterns by the minute. She’s complaining to her mum by now.
“I’m hot, mum. I wanna go!”
“One moment, my love. Timing is everything when you travel on the wind.”
Mum waits for the right wave. Holds hands with her daughter and starts surfing. Up they go. And down below.
They travel over continents. Through time zones. And they know that it’s everywhere the same time anyway. Time is a man-made invention. Clocks are… well… clocks…
And Greeks have two words for time.
Chronos — measured time
Kairos — felt time
Diatomea and her mum travel on the latter. Flow. Just flow. The wind is blowing and their hairs are going and flowing…
Humans have no clue.
After days, months, years, and centuries, their tiny algae bodies arrive at the sea. They’ve been here before. Everything happened before. But every time, there’s a tiny difference in form and who eats what.
Diatomea gets to work. She knows what to do. Photosynthesis. Turning light into energy with 95% efficiency. it’s easy. Everything is easy when you know how to do it.
Diatomea becomes krill. And when the whale blows hunting bubbles, he swallows her whole. No chewing. Just pooping her out again at his rear end. Circle complete. Cycle feeding the helical heart of the whale.
Which is in turn a cycle too.
Science Innovation
What have we learned in recent years that we didn’t know before in science?
- We have never before looked so closely at diatoms. But now, they are the inspiration for making solar panels with 95% efficiency. Turning light into abundant energy. We can now make solar roads and connect them directly to electric cars. No batteries are needed. Direct charging. No more mining. Diatom engineering
- For over 300 years we have thought that the heart was contracting and expanding. But it is not true. The heart is a helical loop that pumps with a twisting and untwisting movement. New Superformula math from 2003
- We can now fish with bubble nets as the whales do. No by-catch. A self-sufficient boat with regard to energy is now somewhere near India. She is called Porrima.
In 2010 she was born under the name of SolarPlanet.
“We want the ship to be the bearer of the philosophy of the blue economy, synonymous with hope and wisdom. Indeed, cherishing life and looking to the future also means learning, understanding and being responsible. This is why it now bears the name of Porrima: a goddess with a vision of the future and protector of pregnant women in Roman mythology”
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Thank you, Gaia, for giving me Wild Writing © Désirée Driesenaar, 2023
