Movie : Magnolia (1999) Tech : Frog raining from the sky ( explained by ampere) EXODUS FROM THE BIBLE At the end of the film, frogs rain from the sky. While this is unexpected, there have been real-life reports of frogs being sucked into waterspouts and then raining to the ground miles inland. Throughout the film there are references to the Book of Exodus 8:2 And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs. EXPLANATION BY AMPERE In a cool bit of historical trivia, the first scientist to really seriously attempt to figure out what was going with these stories of raining animals was the French physicist André-Marie Ampère, whose last name might well tip you off that he made his name in a different field altogether. Still, when Ampère wasnt discovering electromagnetism and lending his name to the unit of electric current, he offered the first known coherent hypothesis for why frogs could suddenly fall from the sky. As he suggested at a meeting of the Society of Natural Sciences, sudden gusts of violent wind could lift large groups of frogs high into the air, and then when the burst of wind dissipated they would rain back to the ground. Up the Waterspout For what was likely little more than a bit of idle speculation, Ampère was more or less correct. The currently favored explanation for animal precipitation involves waterspouts, a special type of tornado that forms over bodies of water. These are capable of sucking up animals in their path and transporting them high up in the air. Because these waterspouts and other types of tornadoes are on the move, when they do eventually break open and release their unwilling passengers, the animals will be far away from their original habitat, hence the appearance of animals raining from nowhere.
Posted on: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 09:48:05 +0000
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