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Everything you need to know about in this weekly series: The 5 best trailers to come out of SDCC, everything you need to know about New Horizons, the company the makes the best main sequences for TV and video games, what causes thunder and lightning, and how fast all of your favorite spaceships from real-life and sci-fi travel.

At Social Underground we go beyond the mainstream stuff and see what’s underneath the surface. What should we get into, listen to, read, eat or watch? If there is something in our culture that needs attention that’s our job: Show you the underground things that you need to know about: Books, music, television, movies, comedians, art, and whatever else we can find to get you into something you never knew about. That’s …show more content…

What exactly causes thunder and lighting during a storm? If you’re from California, you probably don’t have to deal much with rain depending on where in Cali you live. When it does rain, Los Angeles becomes an even more hellish experience trying to drive in heavy traffic because no one knows what to do. If you’re from the East, you get to deal with storms all the time so it just means you have to turn your windshield wiper on faster. If you’re from the South, you get to deal with hurricanes and tornadoes — yet still live in trailer park homes! What all these have in common is that they have thunder and lightning (except the boring rain storms where it just drizzled all day and you have to change your shoes at the …show more content…

I mean, you’re in heaven, bowling is what you choose to do? Give this video and refresh your memory about how it all works up there when a big storm hits.

5. This Infographic details the speeds of real and fictional spacecrafts. Since the New Horizons passed Pluto and is mentioned as one of the fasted moving crafts we’ve sent into space, I’ve always wondered how fast some of the other ships in space actually go.

Most sci-fi shows have an FTL drive (Faster Than Light), but they never really say how much faster they go. If you watch Star Trek, no ship ever really leaves the Milky Way because it’s so fast that their warp drive can’t extend that far. The Alpha, Gamma, Delta and Beta quadrants are just cut up pieces of the galaxy. Other ships can go from galaxy to galaxy like the ship from Stargate Universe. Luckily, the crew over at fatwallet.com have created this wonderful infographic to try to explain how fast your favorite ships from real-life, film, movies, and video games actually

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