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Getting wet - 9/2/2009 2:03:37 PM   
allthatjaz


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Status: offline 		If its raining do you get wetter if you walk to your destiny or wetter if you run or do you get just as wet either way?

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RE: Getting wet - 9/2/2009 2:17:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		I recall once reading a report on a scientific article in which it was claimed that running reduced the amount of wetness by - if I recall correctly - 0.4 per cent.

But let's take an extreme case: someone is standing still one step outside a door and the rain poors down for a whole hour. He gets very wet. Next to him someone walks, takes one step and is inside out of the rain; this person gets wet only a little bit.

Now if someone were running from A to B, and another person walks from A to the closer C, both arriving at B or C simultaneously, who would get the most wet? I suspect that since both spent an equal amount in the rain, both would get equally wet - but I could be wrong.

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RE: Getting wet - 9/2/2009 2:48:29 PM   
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Status: offline 		I am guessing that it depends on how hard it is raining and how far a person has to go. There comes a point when you reach maximum saturation.

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RE: Getting wet - 9/2/2009 3:21:07 PM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks for your answers. This is something I have wondered about every time I get caught out in the rain.
My theory (barring exceptions) and this is only rudimentary, indicate that if the rain is falling vertically (no wind) two people moving from A to B, one walking, one running (assuming neither get saturated) will be equally wet when they reach B. Its a surface are that we are presenting to the rain and so if your walking you will only get your head and shoulders properly wet but when running you present the whole of the front of your body.
An exception could be if its raining with a strong wind on your back or on your front. In this case the person who runs will get to the destination drier than the person that walks because they are both presenting the same surface area to the rain and so the person who is running is exposed for less time.

I may be wrong and we may well need some subs to take the test

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RE: Getting wet - 9/2/2009 3:30:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		I've always been a Walk through the rain and forget the umbrella kind of person.  I'm not made of sugar, so I won't melt.  I don't wear make up or get fussy about my hair every day, so I don't care if it gets wet.  I always feel that my clothes get wetter running and splashing than when I take my time.

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RE: Getting wet - 9/2/2009 3:34:21 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Rule

I recall once reading a report on a scientific article in which it was claimed that running reduced the amount of wetness by - if I recall correctly - 0.4 per cent.



As I child I remember reading about this in some sort of brain teaser / science thing, and I recall it being 10% drier for running through the rain.  (Distance being equal)  The reason being is that you "plow" through more drops while running. 

I was about 7 or 8, so. . . I could be wrong. 

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RE: Getting wet - 9/2/2009 3:44:38 PM   
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Status: offline 		One time I was walking home from ditching school, and I got caught up in a rain storm, I just got under some dence pine tree bows and stood there for a while and then I went and sat on some church steps for a while and read my book while the rain poured down, when the rain was done I got up and got back to walking.
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I've always been a Walk through the rain and forget the umbrella kind of person.  I'm not made of sugar, so I won't melt.  I don't wear make up or get fussy about my hair every day, so I don't care if it gets wet.  I always feel that my clothes get wetter running and splashing than when I take my time.

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RE: Getting wet - 9/2/2009 3:47:57 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Aylee

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ORIGINAL: Rule

I recall once reading a report on a scientific article in which it was claimed that running reduced the amount of wetness by - if I recall correctly - 0.4 per cent.



As I child I remember reading about this in some sort of brain teaser / science thing, and I recall it being 10% drier for running through the rain.  (Distance being equal)  The reason being is that you "plow" through more drops while running. 

I was about 7 or 8, so. . . I could be wrong. 


But surely plowing through more drops would make you wetter?
and lets not forget the foot splash factor when running


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RE: Getting wet - 9/2/2009 3:52:42 PM   
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I've always been a Walk through the rain and forget the umbrella kind of person.  I'm not made of sugar, so I won't melt.  I don't wear make up or get fussy about my hair every day, so I don't care if it gets wet.  I always feel that my clothes get wetter running and splashing than when I take my time.



Lol... tell me about it!
When walking through a field leading two horses in your right hand and two horses in your left you can almost predict that the heavens will open. Horses don't like rain any more than we do and so now all four horses are trying to move to the sheltered side and I'm hanging on for grim death with my wellies now sinking in the mud.
I have spent many a time not being able to escape from the rain quickly!

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RE: Getting wet - 9/2/2009 4:32:16 PM   
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Status: offline 		There is a show that runs over here called Mythbusters that generally do a good job of testing things like this.  Sometimes they don't do it particularly well (like can ninjas run on water... using themselves as ninjas o.O) but they have access to a lot of nifty cool things and are pretty smart.  Anyways, they worked on this particular test and found (in artificial rain mind you) that walking got you less wet.

Then, when they later revisited the myth and used actual rain, they found that running keeps you drier.

Personally I feel that that's a no-brainer, as if you get to your location fast enough, you'll be spending less time outside in the rain and thus, less time getting wet. :P

I like rain and tend to dance in it though. :D


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RE: Getting wet - 9/2/2009 4:38:06 PM   
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ORIGINAL: MsStarlett

I've always been a Walk through the rain and forget the umbrella kind of person.  I'm not made of sugar, so I won't melt.  I don't wear make up or get fussy about my hair every day, so I don't care if it gets wet.  I always feel that my clothes get wetter running and splashing than when I take my time.



I feel the same way. The last time I went walking though some guy in a BIG truck got to close and splashed water all over me. That would not have been so bad but it was right after "break up" and the water was mixed with sand. I tasted sand for days.

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RE: Getting wet - 9/3/2009 7:57:24 AM   
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RE: Getting wet - 9/3/2009 8:21:34 AM   
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Status: offline 		Van... we get that show over here too. I think your right when you say its a no brainer.



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RE: Getting wet - 9/3/2009 8:26:32 AM   
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ORIGINAL: allthatjaz


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ORIGINAL: Aylee

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ORIGINAL: Rule

I recall once reading a report on a scientific article in which it was claimed that running reduced the amount of wetness by - if I recall correctly - 0.4 per cent.



As I child I remember reading about this in some sort of brain teaser / science thing, and I recall it being 10% drier for running through the rain.  (Distance being equal)  The reason being is that you "plow" through more drops while running. 

I was about 7 or 8, so. . . I could be wrong. 


But surely plowing through more drops would make you wetter?
and lets not forget the foot splash factor when running



I think that is why there was only a 10% difference. . . longer time in the rain walking while plowing through running.  I do not recall them saying anything about the foot splashes, and those would depend on where it was raining and how long it had been raining. 

I am not even sure how they calculate it anyways.  (Weigh the clothes afterwards?)

I have slept since I read the story, so I am not sure if it was footnoted with a study or not. 

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RE: Getting wet - 9/3/2009 9:16:16 AM   
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lol.

The key is time.  Not so much wet.     (I hope you are wet when you think of my firm erect postureeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!   hehehe)

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RE: Getting wet - 9/3/2009 11:09:33 AM   
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Status: offline 		Mythbusters tested this... And then I think they revisited it in a later season... The first time I believe they said walking was better, the second time I believe they found running was better.

My guess is that it matters how fast you're running, there's probably an optimal speed where you would get the least wet -- Two slow, and obviously you're just going to get rained on forever, and too fast, and you're going to be running through all the rain that's in front of you, getting wet that way -- So you basically would need to find the speed that minimizes both.

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