Dr. Bret Devereaux

Right.

Those break in heavy winds.

And so they might be building up all of that sort of material in Linden so that like when the fleet arrives so that we can support it logistically, we can maintain it.

And of course, that process is probably going to involve expanding the number of you need carpenters, you need sailmakers, you need just tons of stevedores to move stuff around and carry stuff.

You need to develop the extraction and processing to churn out whatever kind of foodstuffs you're churning out.

Again, my brain always leaps to some form of hardtack or ship's biscuit because it keeps forever.

There are century-old pieces of hardtack that you can still eat.

You shouldn't.

There is like Civil War era hardtack that is still technically edible.

What hardtack is, is it is salted bread that is twice dry.

There's no moisture in it, so it doesn't rot.

As long as you keep it dry, it stays dry.

Whoa.

And so I think there's a – I can't remember if it's a Danish or a Norwegian museum that has a piece of hardtack I want to say from the 1840s on display.

But the upshot is you can throw this stuff in crates and it will keep.

The downside is that all sorts of annoying bugs will get into it.

But the secret upside is that this is protein for your sailors.

Yeah, no, exactly right.

And there are all sorts of delightful stories of how, you know, pre-modern soldiers and sailors would work their hardtack.

You know, during the Civil War, the standard thing to do with hardtack was that, you know, you'd make camp, you'd break out your hardtack, and you had, because it's the Civil War, you had coffee.