Although goosebumps may not serve many purposes to humans nowadays in terms of a threatening display, it is evident in the wildlife around us on cold wintery mornings or when a threatened animal has a similar reaction to fear or intimidation, causing its fur to be puffed out and making itself appear bigger or more dangerous.
Perhaps a more dramatic example of ‘goosebumps’ in animals is that of the porcupine, which puffs out its quills when sensing danger making even a pride of lions rethink their meal choice. Porcupines’ ability to erect the quills is a voluntary action helping in their defence
I believe they do! Before we were seperated from our hairy ancestors we used it as technique to defend or attack much like animals. Because Marine mammals also defend or attack, assuming this they also have goosebumps.
The "turboencabulator" is a famous inner-joke within the engineering world. It was born in a student's journal in 1944, and it became part of engineering lore so that much that actual companies have made fully featured presentations of the "invention", with professionally made data-sheets included (in the case of General Electric, they included a full data-sheet in their General Electric Handbook).
The joke pokes fun at excessive technobabble by using made-up "technical" words that describe an imaginary (yet undecipherable) invention.
Known videos where made with actors that worked for serious engineering presentations:
This one was the first live presentation, made by Bud Haggert (top voice-over talent on technical films), at his request, who after making an actual training film for General Motors convinced everyone to remain in the set to make the sketch:
This one was made by Chrysler (in the description it haves links to other presentations made by other high-profile companies):
Nashville is named after a revolutionary war general.
Nashville gets its name from patriot general Francis Nash. General Nash was a revolutionary war hero who fell in battle. Nash’s name was also used for the now historical landmark of Fort Nashborough. As an additional fun fact: Andrew Jackson’s wife Rachel Donelson lived in Fort Nashborough as a young woman.
Hunting unicorns is legal in Michigan. Lake Superior State University even offers a unicorn hunting license. The "chief herald of the Unicorn Hunters" once said, "The pursuit of the unicorn is a lonely quest." 🦄🌟
The world’s first computer which was named the Z1, was invented by Konrad Zuse in 1936. His next invention, the Z2 was finished in 1939 and was the first fully functioning electro-mechanical computer.
Spiders can release silk from each of their legs. This means a spider can have multiple threads attached at once, helping it build a strong and complex web. Some spiders can even create webs in ways that are completely invisible to the human eye, using extremely fine silk.
I think there's some problem. The top comment is not the one you zapped according to top filter on ~meta. Kindly look at it here and select the custom dates of last 2 days here..
I don't know why the difference between the top in the post and the ranking in the territory but the bounty has always been based on the top ranking within the post. I am not 100% sure but I think top comments and posts in overall rankings and territory rankings are time weighted to favour news posts/comments so stackers are routinely seeing new content but there is no bias for timing within a post.
I have no objection to the bounty but the difference was quite visible! I looked at it just to confirm because I zapped the comment of @Athena and just wanted to see if it makes a difference. I found that the comment from @Athena came on top of all other comments but did not come on top on the post. I also asked the same think to @k00b but he isn't there and I thought you might know about it. But that's fine, according to the rule it's fine!
All mammals get goosebumps!!
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