from ChristianSpotlight:Gives this PG-13 movie 3/4 entertainment and average morality rating: While Sweet Home Alabama is entertaining, the moral content of the film leaves something to be desire. There is unnecessary bad language, sexual humor and, of course, the token homosexual characters (once again using humor to try to desensitize moviegoers to convince them that such behavior is a perfectly acceptable lifestyle). In the end, it is very nice to see a film where an estranged married couple manages to work out their differences and patch up their relationship. But, because of the other objectionable content, I can at best give this film a marginal thumbs up for Christians.
From the movie above, there is a scene where lightening hits sand. Some friends of mine were wondering if this could really happen:
from StormyWeather:
When lightning meets sand, all the energy in the lightning bolt spreads out, melting it into glass as it goes. The result is a formation called a "fulgurite," a brittle glass tube that traces the pattern of the lightning in the sand.
Fulgurites are typically hollow tubes, and may be anywhere from a few inches to several yards long. The length and width are proportional to the strength of the lightning bolt, and also depend on the characteristics of the surface where the bolt hit. The heat of the lightning bolt rapidly melts the sand, which cools just as quickly to a solid tube that preserves the path the lightning took through the ground. The tube is usually very fragile, partly because the sand is rarely pure (inclusions in the glass weaken it) and partly because it cools much too rapidly to anneal, so thermal stress is locked into the glass.
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