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I've never seen a predator kill a sleeping animal (on TV). Do we know if this is common? Do some prey stay in groups and take turns sleeping?

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Antarctica: is the surface ice located far inland hard or snowy? Would it be easy to dig down a few meters or construct an igloo with a shovel?

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Are there any extraterrestrial rocks (or ice chunks) orbiting the Earth that have been recently discovered?

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If a person were flash frozen at the moment of death, sealed in an airtight, rigid canister, and buried deep under the South Pole (at a constant -50 degrees C), how long would he (it?) likely have before the DNA degrades beyond the point of being clone-able?

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Like the Earth, do moons of other planets also synchronize tidally to effect a light-side, dark-side relationship?

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Is it possible for a moon to have a moon, or is that arrangement gravitationally unstable?

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Has a Nobel Prize ever been awarded for work that was later proved to have serious flaws?

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Where is Artificial Life these days? Are we anywhere close to elementary chemical / protein folding simulations that can simulate an evolving system that could reveal a plausible mechanism for the evolution of biological self-replication?

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We've all seen maps of the brain on which specific sensory regions of the cerebrum map to specific regions of the body. Do our brains have a region that would, in lower mammals, map to the tail? If so, what is the function of that region?

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In nature how likely is quantum entanglement between particles at macroscopic distances?

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I've never seen a predator kill a sleeping animal (on TV). Do we know if this is common? Do some prey stay in groups and take turns sleeping?	1
Antarctica: is the surface ice located far inland hard or snowy? Would it be easy to dig down a few meters or construct an igloo with a shovel?	1
Are there any extraterrestrial rocks (or ice chunks) orbiting the Earth that have been recently discovered?	1
If a person were flash frozen at the moment of death, sealed in an airtight, rigid canister, and buried deep under the South Pole (at a constant -50 degrees C), how long would he (it?) likely have before the DNA degrades beyond the point of being clone-able?	1
Like the Earth, do moons of other planets also synchronize tidally to effect a light-side, dark-side relationship?	1
Is it possible for a moon to have a moon, or is that arrangement gravitationally unstable?	1
Has a Nobel Prize ever been awarded for work that was later proved to have serious flaws?	1
Where is Artificial Life these days? Are we anywhere close to elementary chemical / protein folding simulations that can simulate an evolving system that could reveal a plausible mechanism for the evolution of biological self-replication?	1
We've all seen maps of the brain on which specific sensory regions of the cerebrum map to specific regions of the body. Do our brains have a region that would, in lower mammals, map to the tail? If so, what is the function of that region?	1
In nature how likely is quantum entanglement between particles at macroscopic distances?	1