So, do you catch more or less raindrops if you run through the rain?

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When you're standing still, the only water that hits you is what lands on top of you. When you're running, there's water hitting you from both the top and from the front that you're running toward.

>the video provides an answer
>THAT MUST BE THE RIGHT ANSWER

>Travel at light speed
>Refract into a rainbow

But you also reach your destination quicker and spend less time in the rain.

Unless your destination is even more rain.

Literally facepalming at you retards ITT. I can solve this easily with logic.

If your velocity was zero, you would just be standing in the rain and accumulating infinite wetness.

Therefore, the faster you go the less wet you are.

>Literally facepalming at you retards ITT. I can solve this easily with logic.
>infinite wetness
thank you

> Travel at nearly light speed
> die of high energy gamma radiation caused by the collision with air molecules faster than from the collision itself

You may accumulate more per second but fewer seconds in the rain = less rain fuckin duh

Mythbusters tested this but can't remember the results.

damn, did they forget to film it?

No, they didn't forget to film it, desu.. If I recall correctly, they found that walking through rain leaves you less wet than running. I would assume this would change with greater distances, though.

Less. Water that hits you horizontally is dependent only on water drop density and distanced traveled. Water that hits you vertically is dependent only on flow rate and time.

Well, then by the same logic, as velocity approaches infinity, the number of raindrops landed goes to zero.

>Well, then by the same logic
Not necessarily. All we know is that it has to decrease.

Tested by mythbusters. Running makes you more wet

No. The amount of water you hit at infinite speed approaches your frontal area times the distance travelled times the amount of rain per volume of air.

Didn't minute physics say less

Times the amount of time taken (=0)

More, so if you're running around in a circle in rain, you're an idiot
Unless you're trying to leg it for the cover, then running to minimise time in rain is better than standing around getting nowhere

Fukken kek

no, in the limit as your speed goes to infinity, basically it's like the rain is standing still. So you would be hit by every raindrop that is currently in between you and where you're going.

But you're not standing still. You're walking.
Imagine the rain being stationary, suspended in air. The only water that will hit you is the one you walk into. It doesn't matter if you run into it, or walk into it. It will be the same total amount.
But in reality the rain is not standing still, it is falling. The only difference here is however that now the longer you stay inside the rain, the more will hit you. And this is the only thing that matters.

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rain cape & boots
singing in the rain

less because you spend less time in the rain.

Running = you accumulate water faster but will have accumulated less in total than if you would have walked the same distance. That is, if your clothing isn't already completely soaked by then.

after running some advanced physic simulations I can confirm that running is indeed the superior option in case of rainfall

going fast minimizes the volume of water you clip

Depends of the direction of the wind.

rain doesnt fall from a 90 degrees angle. it will hit you from the sides too. rememver also wind. you are true about the exposed surfaces, but wrong about rain falling only on top when walking.

Depends on the direction you're running in, and whether or not there is a roof at the destination.

You get less wet if you run in rain that is vertically falling. This is due to reduction of the time it takes to go where needed. If you walk in vertical rain, you will catch all of the rain but if you run, you will only catch the rain in front of you and maybe some on the back of your legs.

Walking will make you soaked even on a day with a light drizzle. The did the test on myth busters and although its a meme show about science, there's not really any complexity behind the solution.