However, the traditional newspaper (if there really is such an animal) is threatened by shrinking readership. Television is focused on entertainment, even when it dresses it up as news.. Radio is threatened by satellites. All are confronted with the frictionless distribution enabled by the Internet, the disruptive effects of digital information. None have figured out a business model that pays for content at today's rates.
Thunder is a compression wave and will dissipate with time and distance. Under excellent conditions, thunder can be heard about 12 miles away from the lightning strike. However most of the time conditions arenât this good and we usually canât hear thunder any more than about 5 miles away.
Thunder travels through air at the speed of sound. Officially the speed of sound is 1,087 feet per second (331.3 meters per second) in dry air at 32 degrees F (0 degrees C).ecause it travels at 186,000 miles per second (the speed of light) or one mile in 5.3 millionths of a second, we see it so much sooner than we hear the thunder.