"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message 
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>  This one puzzles me really:
>
>  In almost all movies and TV series, where there's lightning, the sound
> of the thunder is played exactly at the same time. I can't remember any
> exceptions to this rule.
>
>  I really can't understand why. In reality the thunder almost never
> starts sounding immediately with the lightning but there's always a
> pause, often of several seconds. Practically 100% of people know this
> from lifelong experience.
>
>  So why are movie makers so afraid of putting a realistic pause between
> the lightning and the thunder? They know there should be a pause, all
> the viewers know it, no viewer would get bothered by there having a
> realistic pause because they know it should be there. So why? Why this
> odd rule?

  Yes, I agree that it's not realistic, but really, it's just for the best 
effect in any given film?

 Isn't it a rule of thumb that for every second after the lightning until 
the thunder sounds, that's one mile per second? Hence 9 seconds, the storm 
is 9 miles away from you?


      ~Steve~




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>                                                          - Warp

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