Rain - Fast or slow?
 

Topic: Will you get hit by more rain drops if you are running or walking?

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Running.

If you are walking you cover a less area that the drops could be in, say there are 20 drops inside of a 6ft by 3ft rectangle while you are walking it only multiplies so fast, now if you are running you have a chance to break through new barriers and get hit by more drops.

Ever drove in the rain? Notice how it seems like it's raining harder when you're moving rather than stationary?

But if there's wind to rain, and you're in a large storm, there isn't much difference if you stay still, walk, or run, except that if you run you'll get hit by more of the rain.

Walking.

Walking, but I got this from watching Myth Busters.

Rhode Island. Neither a road or an island.


/discuss

Rhode is a Greek Deity?

The Deity of Miniscule Armpit States?

http://kwc.org/mythbusters/2003/09/mythbusters.html

"Over a hundred yard course, it is better to walk in the rain than run in the rain, if your goal is to not get wet. The difference isn't huge, but over eight trials the running person got wetter."

Mythbusters redid the experiment and found that it's better to run in the rain.

but its better to run in the rain, on a slick surface, with a knife in your hand, and a noose around your neck...and it attached to a tree...

but only if your black of course

What the fuck are you on? x_X.

I got a better idea.


Get an umbrella. If you're out in the rain and worried about the degree of wetness you are going to obtain it's going to be miniscule when compared to having an umbrella, or not being out in the rain at all.

stand under my umbrella ella ella eh eh eh

She says umberella.

Foreign wench. I'd bang her twice, then throw her out.

id just like hit her with a baseball bat. i HATE that song. and everyday at camp last year BLI was on for 8 hours. That song came on at least 3 times a day. no joke.

Sometimes I have herd a song played, then another, then the first again. It is absurd. No one wants to listen to a song that many times.

im on something, not sure yet...

Walking, you are in the rain for a longer amount of time...also probably depends on distance you are traveling and weather conditions.

Notice how it seems like small furry animals like squirrels hit a moving car harder than one that jumps on it while parked?

Thanatos likely meant 'heavier', meaning, rain is hitting you more frequently, and not literally 'harder'.

Regardless, aside from any odd weather condition, I'd imagine the difference of whether you get wetter or not depends on if you are moving at a speed faster or slower than the rate at which the rain is falling.

So you'd have to be going fast enough to not get soaked, but slow enough to not get....soaked?

If you're walking uber slow (yes, I said it) then you're gonna get completely drenched. And if you're walking extremely fast, you're going to hit more droplets then intended also. So their must be a mathmatical equation to figure this out...









....Where's MJ?

Well, it was raining outside yesterday, so I decided to walk and run. I still got wet.

NO FUCKIN WAY! >.>


This is just getting crazier and crazier!

Then someone kept flashing their camera at me, so I got scared and rolled around in the mud.

I still got wet!

Wait, but if you run, you can get under some type of cover rather than if you take your time and walk while you get drenched.

I don't know if you realized this but, water is generally in a liquid state when it is falling from the sky. This liquid state is very wet.

Wow...

You shoulda added the sarcasm tags :-/

I just thought about it and figured it out.

Assuming you can't get under cover and are on a totally flat plane, and can not escape the area under the rain, and the rain is evenly dispersed, you will be hit by the same amount of droplets, regardless wether you are moving fast or slow.

I'd say a nice job is where it's at.

Does hail travel faster than rain when coming down from the clouds? Rail is lighter, but hail could have the effect of gravity on it more...

You fail at physics.

Yes, and no.

Yes, hail will drop faster, but not due to it being accelerated faster by gravity. The force on anything near the Earth's surface due to gravity will cause it to accelerate at -9.8 m/s/s. However, air resistance will slow down the water droplets more than hail.

I have physics honors next year, so I haven't failed yet...

hail sucks. it hurts alot more than rain does

Beat me to it :x.