This means that â in the absence of a trust â the state will take care of their interests until your beneficiaries are adults. Your life insurance policy is a different kettle of fish though. Even if your nominated beneficiary is a minor, stipulatio alteri will be enforced as though they were adults. This means that the state will have no say over the proceeds of your policy and the insurer will pay the money directly to your minor beneficiary regardless of whether he or she is 18 months or 18 years old.
The delay between when you see lightning and when you hear thunder occurs because sound travels much, much slower than light. Sound travels through air at about 1100 to 1200 feet per second (our default is 1150). That is a little more than one mile per five seconds. This approximation will give you a good idea of how far away the lightning was.
Lightning is over 40,000 degrees Fahrenheit. A bolt of lightning heats the air along its path causing it to expand rapidly. Thunder is the sound caused by the rapidly expanding atmosphere. The purpose of this experiment is to watch lightning and hear thunder to give you clues about how far away you are from a storm. One thunderstorm. A stop watch (or the ability to say one-Mississippi) 2. For every 5 seconds the storm is one mile away.