John VanSickle <evi### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Movies aren't reality, but in any event, most of the lightning strikes 
> in the movies I've seen were up close, and not off in the distance.

  Is 300 meters "up close" or "off in the distance"? IMO that's pretty
close (for a lightning strike). Yet, it takes the sound almost a second
to travel that distance.

  The ligthning strike has to be *really* close (even dangerously so)
for the light and sound to be undistinguishably separated.

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