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.
Contrary to what some think, thunder is not caused by the lightning bolt âbreaking the sound barrierâ. If this were true, then every time we turned on a light in the house we would hear a sonic boom! The speed of light is about 186,282 miles per second. The speed of sound is about 0.211 miles per second at sea level.