Sprinting as Fast as You Can Will Keep You Drier In the Rain, Says Physics - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;36916012]I have an groundbreaking idea. What if what's better depends on the circumstances like wind, density of rain, size of droplets, and such, and there's no simple "A or B" answer?[/QUOTE] But dumb people want an "A or B" answer

[QUOTE=Electrocuter;36912596]I believe the problem is getting sick, not getting wet.[/QUOTE] Maybe if your immune system is six kinds of defective. Being out in the rain does not get you sick. It just makes you a little wet, [i]the same thing showering does[/i]. It boggles my mind how people can stand under a bunch of falling water droplets in a small porcelain box every morning without so much as a second thought, but the second nature even thinks about doing the same thing to them they act like it's the end of the fucking world. I've never been even remotely hurried by rain, I just stroll on as if it was a normal sunny day, and it doesn't bother me at all that I get a little wet. If you shower before you go into public every time, like a sane person, walking in the rain should not bother you. It is the same thing, only you don't have a temp knob and you're clothed. Hell, in some places, rainwater is cleaner than the water coming out of the showerhead! Then again I've always liked rainy and stormy weather so maybe I'm just a nut. Idunno. I'll happily stand out on the back porch watching a tornado throw the neighbor's cows around while my peers cower under the sink.

[QUOTE=TestECull;36916089]Maybe if your immune system is six kinds of defective. Being out in the rain does not get you sick. It just makes you a little wet, [i]the same thing showering does[/i]. It boggles my mind how people can stand under a bunch of falling water droplets in a small porcelain box every morning without so much as a second thought, but the second nature even thinks about doing the same thing to them they act like it's the end of the fucking world. I've never been even remotely hurried by rain, I just stroll on as if it was a normal sunny day, and it doesn't bother me at all that I get a little wet. If you shower before you go into public every time, like a sane person, walking in the rain should not bother you. It is the same thing, only you don't have a temp knob and you're clothed. Hell, in some places, rainwater is cleaner than the water coming out of the showerhead! Then again I've always liked rainy and stormy weather so maybe I'm just a nut. Idunno. I'll happily stand out on the back porch watching a tornado throw the neighbor's cows around while my peers cower under the sink.[/QUOTE] I think the problem isn't moisture on body surface. It's that your clothes stop isolating and begin cooling you down. You get cold. Your immune system doesn't like that. [editline]24th July 2012[/editline] Mainly if you aren't used to that. If you accustom yourself to cold through cold showers and such, your immune system can cope with it better.

[QUOTE=samuel2213;36912609]I bet its because rain is usually cold as fuck[/QUOTE] Not really. It's pretty refreshing unless it's raining in the middle of december. Even then it's not going to make you sick on the basis that it's a bit cold, even at just a casual stroll you'll be indoors long before the cold rain has any chance of doing more than making you uncomfortable. [editline]24th July 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Awesomecaek;36916128]I think the problem isn't moisture on body surface. It's that your clothes stop isolating and begin cooling you down. You get cold. Your immune system doesn't like that. [editline]24th July 2012[/editline] Mainly if you aren't used to that. If you accustom yourself to cold through cold showers and such, your immune system can cope with it better.[/QUOTE] I've never really had a problem with colds and flus anyway. When I catch them I get a day and a half of sniffles, maybe a runny nose, whereas my friends are out of commission for a week straight. Same bug. Hell I usually catch it from them. Maybe that's it? Idunno I still don't think rainwater poses a hazard to anyone. You're not going to catch a cold by being in the rain. It's been proven time and again. Rainwater is clean enough to drink straight from the cloud unless you live in LA or the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

They did this on brainiac and found that walking through the rain was better than running.

Goddamnit science when I'm biking it's raining and the faster I go, the more it rains So annoying

I look at it this way, quicker you get out of the rain the faster you can get dry.

[QUOTE=TestECull;36916153]Not really. It's pretty refreshing unless it's raining in the middle of december. Even then it's not going to make you sick on the basis that it's a bit cold, even at just a casual stroll you'll be indoors long before the cold rain has any chance of doing more than making you uncomfortable. [editline]24th July 2012[/editline] I've never really had a problem with colds and flus anyway. When I catch them I get a day and a half of sniffles, maybe a runny nose, whereas my friends are out of commission for a week straight. Same bug. Hell I usually catch it from them. Maybe that's it? Idunno I still don't think rainwater poses a hazard to anyone. You're not going to catch a cold by being in the rain. It's been proven time and again. Rainwater is clean enough to drink straight from the cloud unless you live in LA or the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.[/QUOTE] You have a luckily strong immune system. That's part genetics part lifestyle. Others simply don't have to be so fortunate. Some people don't have a flu all their life, others are nigh unable to function once they catch it.

[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;36916302]You have a luckily strong immune system. That's part genetics part lifestyle. Others simply don't have to be so fortunate. Some people don't have a flu all their life, others are nigh unable to function once they catch it.[/QUOTE] Mmm, still doesn't explain why people are so twitchy about getting wet though. Unless you've got full blown AIDS, are on chemo, are a fresh recipient of an organ transplant, or have something else that makes your immune system nonfunctional you have nothing to worry about with regard to catching something from walking in the rain and getting a bit wet. As far as my own immune system, I like to think it functions normally because I don't rush towards the hand sanitizer every five seconds. Hell I never use the stuff at all, when I wash my hands I use bog standard bar soap.

[QUOTE=CanadianBill;36915644]Mythbusters tested it twice. First Adam and Jamie did it in a giant warehouse with artificially created rain, from a giant plumbing system above. They concluded that running was better than walking in rain. Then Tory, Grant, and Kari tested it again, and they found that walking was better than running. They did it in actual rain, walked out of M7 (or was it M5?) walked a course side by side, then walked back in. Adam and Jamie had listened to some other researchers who tested it and those researchers found the same as Kari, Grant, and Tori.[/QUOTE] But then it depends on what angle the rain is falling at versus the direction of the people running.

[QUOTE=Mr. Smartass;36916876]But then it depends on what angle the rain is falling at versus the direction of the people running.[/QUOTE] And several other factors. As stated several times before, it's not as simple as "run or walk." Not all rain is identical.

I always used to tell people that if you ran fast enough you could dodge the rain droplets, and they never believed me. Who's laughing now?

I knew this already. Mickey Mouse magazine already taught this to kids about 15 years ago.

[QUOTE=DesolateGrun;36914150]then you slip and fall and cry in a wet muddy puddle[/QUOTE] The important thing is you tried...

It's better, in my opinion, to run if the rain is coming straight down or at an angle away from you. Likely, in some cases, you'll absorb a larger amount of water overall but it would be spread out over your whole body and would dry faster. I'd rather be a little damp than have my shoulders fucking soaked. Plus you pretty much look like an asshole walking in the rain over a short distance.

I always noticed that when I ran in the rain and got less rain drops than my friends who ran.

What if I slip?

[QUOTE=QuikKill;36912440]I know they did with a convertible. The faster they went, the less rain reached the driver, but if they stopped, they got soaked. Or something like that.[/QUOTE] Yes, they found that accelerating decreased the amount of water they got on the car, memory serving they stayed completely dry at several hundred miles per hour. It's completely impractical.

[QUOTE=asteroidrules;36923973]Yes, they found that accelerating decreased the amount of water they got on the car, memory serving they stayed completely dry at several hundred miles per hour. It's completely impractical.[/QUOTE]Actually, at about 50 to 70 miles per hour, no water made it in to the car. It was simply because the car was going so fast that the rain didn't have enough time to fall in to the passenger compartment, and the windshield prevented any from hitting them from the front.

[QUOTE=Furioso;36912561]that's a terrible idea you'd slip and fall all over yourself[/QUOTE] I run every chance I get in the rain and that's actually never happened to me.

Starts to rain and then everyone just starts sprinting down the sidewalk just to avoid getting as wet.

[QUOTE=TestECull;36916861]Mmm, still doesn't explain why people are so twitchy about getting wet though.[/QUOTE] Because having to sit 8 hours in school or work while being completely soaked is not in any way pleasant.

[QUOTE=Someguy13;36916226]Goddamnit science when I'm biking it's raining and the faster I go, the more it rains So annoying[/QUOTE] I thought you're not supposed to bike in the rain