bostonfred
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Which gets you wetter?
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more wet: walking through rain, or running? (1 Viewer)
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TheIronSheik
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Officer Pete Malloy
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Mythbusters did this. Pretty sure they concluded that running the rain actually gets you wetter.
Parrothead
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bostonfred
Footballguy
They did, but their methodology was flawed. This isn't about mythbusters though. Office is horribly divided over this right now.
Parrothead
Footballguy
what is heavier- a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?
cstu
Footballguy
It makes sense that you would be getting more water on you by running into it rather than letting it fall on your just head and shoulders (assuming no wind and the rain is coming straight down).
However, if it's windy and raining at an angle I think you'd be better off getting out of it as soon as possible.
General Malaise
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bostonfred
Footballguy
Let's say there are a thousand rain drops in the air between you and your door, and they're falling at a perfectly steady pace. If you walk straight ahead, you should walk through 1000 drops. But if you run, you should also walk through 1000 drops. No difference.
The difference seems to be how long you are in the rain. If it takes you five seconds to run and ten seconds of you walk, then you should get gone seconds wetter walking.
The difference seems to be how long you are in the rain. If it takes you five seconds to run and ten seconds of you walk, then you should get gone seconds wetter walking.
bostonfred
Footballguy
You walk into the rain too, though.
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TheWalkmen
Footballguy
If there's enough rain that you're completely soaked when running, you're as wet as if you would've walked. Like if you're in the rain for a mile, it doesn't matter. If you're 25 feet from a door, and it's not a torrential downpour, running gets you less wet.
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TheWalkmen
Footballguy
So wouldn't the clearest answer be that if you can run more quickly than the drops are coming down and can reach your destination before becoming completely soaked, you're less wet by running?
JaxBill
Footballguy
http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/running-in-the-rain-minimyth.htm
running gets you wetter by almost a 2-1 margin
when you run, your body isn't perfectly vertical.
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TheWalkmen
Footballguy
But I swear I've had personal instances where I would run in and someone else would walk in from the rain and the walker is substantially wetter.
D in the D
Footballguy
The answer is none. None more wetter.
Frostillicus
Footballguy
In either case are we allowed to dodge the raindrops?
AhrnCityPahnder
Yinz-o-riffic
I stay inside when it rains.
Fennis
Footballguy
Parrothead
Footballguy
can't afford an umbrella?
cstu
Footballguy
Let's say there are a 1000 rain drops that will hit you on your head and shoulders if you walk. If you run twice as fast as you walk there will be half as many rain drops that hit your head and shoulders (500) but many more that will hit your body which has a much larger surface area.
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bostonfred
Footballguy
precisely the same number should hit your front surface. If you send pac man down the same hallway, it doesn't matter how fast he goes, he still eats the same number of dts.
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
The storm starts, when the drops start dropping
When the drops stop dropping then the storm starts stopping.
-Ben Franklin
When the drops stop dropping then the storm starts stopping.
-Ben Franklin
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
That happy day we'll find each other on that Florida shore
You'll open your umbrella
And we'll walk between the raindrops back to your door.
If you are running with the wind, it could be less. I think in most every case you will be hit by more raindrops by going slower because the longer exposure time will have a bigger impact than whatever increase you might get by running into some extra drops.
Brony
Footballguy
Brony
Footballguy
Why didn't they measure the head area? I would think most people would care more about their hair getting wet or not.
