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I recently came across a mention of navigators using melange to “fold space” and I seem to remember this used as a pseudoscience explanation for guild navigation in the David lynch movie. I’ve recently re-read the original book through to GEOD and im pretty sure it’s not mentioned in the books that way. I bring it up because l’ve always been fond of the way humans are portrayed in the novels to have evolved/specialized to different extremes of human potential (mentats-computation and analysis, bene G body control and human psychology…). in the case of the spacing guild, I understood (or inferred) their ability to travel faster than light as dependant on their prescience: ie they had to be

Just opened some syrup from 2017 that was kept in the cold storage, still very good but it has grown some crystals (or some other precipitate) in the bottom of the bottle. Another case of syrup a friend had stored in the garage (from last year) has crystallized 3/4” in the bottom of the bottles. Can you share any advice for best practices for storage of maple syrup (temperature, other variables)? Thanks!

From a mid sized maple operation that uses an RO filter, I would like to bottle some of the by-product RO water for drinking later and I’m looking for advice from anyone who has been down this road already. We purchased 1L PET bottles, do they need to be sterilized first? Rinsed? Should the water be hot packed or the bottles “canned” in a pasteurizer? Or can it be cold bottled if everything is clean but with a limited shelf life?