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(I don't know how hard this would be) Demonstrating different ways of preserving food and how the methods work. How many ways is there? On top of my head I can only think of refridgerating, drying, salting (or does that work in the same way as drying?) and pickling. Lets just hope everything stays preserved...

Exactly. The legs are in the way so they have to move them.

A celestial body (or maybe it should be bodies in this case) then. Have you ever thought about the fact that the discworlds sun is weird enough to warm up the rim instead of the hub, when it should be doing the opposite? The hub is of course exposed to more sunlight than the rim. Or maybe there should be large deserts on the rim because of the sun passing so close by? A great ice waterfall "falling" out in space, now THAT would be beautiful. Having elephant legs standing in your way maybe messes up your sense of physics Or there is simply a lot of magic there. Or narrativium. Or just Terry telling me to get a life.

Or sea-turtle-and-elephants shaped. I really would like to see the look on the astronomers faces if they found that one Any Pratchett readers here?

Betelguise. Reason 1: Great name (say it aloud a few times) 2: About to explode 3: It is mentioned in the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams: "Arthur would be probably be surprised if he learned that his friend for the last fifteen years came from a small planet in the vincinity of Betelguise, and not from Guildford after all" or something like that.

Did a quick search myself and found this: "The salt separates the water molecules in the ice causing it to melt. After about a minute the salt is distributed and no longer disturbs the water molecules. The ice refreezes around the string." I assume that the other salts you tried works in the same way, and that there were too much salt in the chunks to be distributed in that small area, causing it not to freeze.