Do YOU THINK with either a LEFT or RIGHT side of the BRAIN? DEBUNKED kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qJ2Jiaymy82lqGg.html

Simple solution. You just have to run fast enough so that the air pressure in front of you blows the rain out of the way. Disclaimer, you may end up creating a sonic boom

Another option: Spend years of your life training to memorize every rain pattern to perfectly avoid each drop.

Summary: Run.

I once saw a stranger in the rain and they had some sort of hand-held object that blocks the rain when held above the head. Then a bit later the stranger got into a gunfight and used the object to deflect bullets in the same way. It truly was a piece of incredible technology.

"Oh, it's raining. Let me get my protractor and anemometer."

For more of an advanced technique, quickly dig a burrow into the ground and tunnel your way to your destination when it starts raining so you don't get wet at all

3:03 My guy was legit crossing the road running while carrying the umbrella closed 🌂 💀😂😂

this is a video id watch at 3 am when i cant fall asleep

The way I see it is that the feeling of getting pelted by raindrops is the unpleasant part, not merely being wet. So I run, not to get less wet, but to lessen the amount of time I'm spending in the rain.

I does amaze us how seemingly "simple" question have such complex answer. Always remember that when a curious child ask you a question 😁

POV: You're watching this in the rain to see what do you do

Bruh just dodge the rain

What about crab-walking or "galloping" sideways to reduce the cross-section of your body in the direction you are moving? You will definitely look like an idiot, but will you be a slightly drier idiot once you reach your destination?

What I always do is run IN BETWEEN the rain drops, arriving at my destination bone dry! Or, option 2: Carry an umbrella.

If it starts raining, im walking even slower. I just embrace it.😂

Mythbusters tested this and found the opposite. I'm surprised you didn't mention that in the video. They had both presenters walk through controlled rain in a warehouse both with and without wind. They then weighed the cotton overalls to see how much weight they had gained during the walk/run. They found that running actually increased the amount of water collected by almost twice the amount across the entire 100 foot course.

I have a groundbreaking thought experiment. What if someone invented some sort of shell type material we could wear over our clothes. It could even have a zipper on the front so as to be easily removed when not needed.

1:33 even though they both get wet at the same rate, running would still allow you to stay dryer. The person walking actually gets twice as wet as the runner because at the point they’d been hit 4 times, the runner had only been hit twice.

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I dont care what anyone says, im running in the rain

This was incredible overcomplicated when you remember wind exists and will flow the rain at an angle, making you always get hit by the water from all sides whether you run or walk.

*"Observe the rain, everything has a pattern. Observe that patterns."* -Tohou Player

Here is another take from my MIT freshman physics class. You get wet two ways: (1) Drops that fall onto you, and (2) Drops that you run into. For drops that you run into, it doesn't matter how fast you run or walk: you sweep out the same volume either way. (A note in here suggests crab walking, walking sideways; that will reduce the amount you sweep out.) But the drops that fall onto you increases the longer you are in the rain, so running will reduce the amount that falls onto you. Conclusion: run, don't walk.

just sit in the middle of the road thinking about life

For me, when it just started to rain, the rain droplets are smaller so it's better to Sprint immediately than getting caught by bigger rain drops.

Always wondered if it really was better to walk in the rain because “running will get you wetter”

As someone who lives somewhere we’re it rains a lot, this is vital information and I think about it often.

Simple solution: play Touhou and learn how to dodge rain drops.

'I like the rain because when it rains nobody can see my tears' By Charlie Chaplin

My experiences, running is worse, my upper thighs saturate, then water flows down legs, resulting areas such as inside shoes getting wet. When I walk, may be actually more soaked but feet stay dry. I'd argue, that at some duration of exposure in relation to intensity, it becomes measurably same but, what gets wet? Including a variable of waterproof shoes...

Quite a good study. Separating the rain that meets you from the front and the rain that falls on you from above, you meet the same volume of water-laden air from the front nomatter how fast you go, but the rain falling on you from above is proportional to the time you take in the rain. Risk assessment for running in the rain might be humorous!

Thanks Mythbusters for giving this creator free content without even getting mentioned :)

your scenario started off with it just starting to rain, "usually" when it has just started to rain, it is not raining that hard, so running early would keep you drier by spending less time when it starts raining harder.

Normal people: "Should I walk or run through the rain?" Me, a Touhou fan: DODGE!

You forgot the obvious 0:14 into the video: _"you feel a drop of what is about to be cascading sheets of rain"_ Start running for shelter before the drop becomes "cascading sheets" and you might beat the drenching, perhaps completely.

Im glad the video mentioned an optimal speed. Ive always been able to just kind of feel for that speed. However, once the rain is heavy enough and the wind starts rapidly changing direction, it no longer matters because that optimal speed isn't going to be possible. Try moving your hand down the stream of water from a shower head. You'll eventually find the speed of the water and feel less resistance and less water actually touches your hand.

This doesn’t take into account splash factor. When you’re running in the rain, you absolutely soak your lower extremities. A brisk walk seems to be the sweet spot

I think there's also a question to be had about the whole process of getting wet. Maybe I'm mistaken but it always appeared to me that clothes get soaked more badly by prolonged exposure to water compared to a quick splash. Meaning, even if running would cause you to get hit by more drops, you might still not end up entirely as wet as if you were to give the water time to seep in.

Okay so, Run in the rain, and if it's blowing at you from behind, run at speed with it.

Braniac Science Abuse with Richard Hammond covered this really well. If there’s wind, and it’s behind you, run, if it’s in your face, walk.

There's probably a middle ground with the speed there, too. Perhaps running as fast as you are able without getting sweaty would be best. The increase in body temperature from running will help dry you faster, but obviously being a sweaty mess at your destination isn't ideal. Really, the actual answer here is to be a responsible person and check the weather forecast so you know to bring an umbrella, if needed.

A runner and walker approaching a shelter from the rain hit as many rainrops in a given period of time. So when the runner reaches shelter, he is just as wet as the walker, but that's as wet as he will get (not counting sweat.) At that same point in time, the walker is still in the rain, and will continue getting wetter until he also reaches the shelter.

Nice! I'm looking forward seeing me walking trough the rain calmly, while other people are running, seeing me, and they just like: "WTF dude, are you immortal?".

I love the closing argument being "Physical Exertion is horrible, I don't want to do it, and you can't make me." 10/10

Also, when it rains, there are puddles. Running across puddles will make you wet regardless of wind or amount of rain. So there's that.

The reason for running is evolutionary. You feel rain and you run for cover to avoid the flash flood.

Using simple analogies, we can see that there are two components to the amount of water that hits you. And they can be reduced to one, but it may or may not answer your question. 1) Remember those cartoons where the hero runs through a fog bank, and leaves a hero-shaped tunnel in it? That is what actually happens when you go from the bus to your office's front door in the rain. So imagine that the rain stops falling, and just hangs in mid-air like a mist. No matter what speed you take, you will leave a person-shaped tunnel in that mist. All of the water - no more, and no less - that was in that tunnel is now on you; and specifically, on the front of your clothes. Your back, and the top of your head, stay dry. 2) But the rain actually is falling. So now imagine that you can balance a bowl on your head, even while running, that is just as wide as your head. The rain that would fall on your head is captured in this bowl. The amount of water it collects depends on the time you spend in the rain, the rate at which it is falling, and the angle at which it hits you (which depends on your speed). So running is better for the bowl. The front of your clothes still get wet, but maybe not by as much because some (but not all) of the water in the bowl would have hit you. Now imagine that you can fly; or more precisely, run or walk on air as if it was the ground. When you fly from your helicopter to a tenth-floor window, you will still leave a person-shaped tunnel in the mist I described (#1 above). But now the tunnel behind you is "falling" with the rain as you move forward. The helicopter-side of the tunnel might be at third-floor level when you reach the tenth-floor window. The water you collect is still the water that (was) in that tunnel, but its shape is harder to describe. The fact that the rain is falling makes the shape, at any point in the tunnel, a tall, stretched-out version of you. Like what you see in a fun-house mirror that makes you look ten feet tall. Your speed determines how "tall" it is - walking makes it taller than running. But the horizontal distance is still the same. So the taller the shape is, the more water you collect. Speed it also affects where the water hits you - the angle the tunnel makes with the ground is the same as the angle where the water hits you. Ignoring wind (which also affects the shape of the tunnel), walking always means that more water hits you, but it hits you primarily on the top of your head. Running means less water, but almost all of it on the front of your clothes. Walking with an umbrella, even a too-small one, significant;y reduces wetness.

If it starts to rain, I prefer to run to get to my destination before the weather get worse and it rains more, but if it's already raining then I prefer to walk

I’ve always heard that speed walking is the best way to get through rain because you get to you destination faster but the rain doesn’t soak in as much

Usually the rain starts slow and if you run, you get inside before it starts pouring.

Studies show that, if you’re using an umbrella, it doesn’t really matter if you walk or run.

Running under the rain is more of a reflex action to me. I don't stress myself up trying to figure out rain speed, direction etc. Just sprint as much as possible

While running it’s no about getting wet,it’s about getting warmer

Enjoyed this video immensely.

I was under the rain while watching this, so I decided to stand still so I could get less wet. Now my phone screen is not working

Mythbusters tackled this myth and concluded that you do get wetter from running as opposed to walking

A couple other hypotheticals would include, if the rain intensity increased, or decreased in the allotted time, and how that would affect the walker and or runner. I.e. if one ran for shelter, and then upon arrival the rain stopped, while the walker was still in route, the walker would end up dryer. However, if the intensity increased, the runner would end up dryer.... Love your videos!

Don't run, don't give the rain the satisfaction.

Had that questioning my head for.. ever. Thank you

It's amazing how long science will spend time to resolve such trivial questions with complex answer... I wonder how much more of these there is out there. Funny and curious at the same time.

its not even about quantifiable wetness, i just dont want to be there for too long and running definitely means less time rained on

I wanted to discover the risks of running in the rain as one day I ran for 30 minutes under a heavy rain in my way home but half in the way I was short in breath because of the moisture and my homezone is a hot village so the air pressure was making me hard to breathe, provoking my muscles to feel heavier the more that I ran and I almost collapsed under the rain but was able to make it home with a lot of exhaustion, went directly to bath and sleep right after for the rest of the day Thankfully I didn't get so sick but it was an experience that made me fear running under any rain in a hot zone and I hope everyone takes care taking this in consideration before thinking to sprint in the rain

Have you also considered the "splash factor" when running through puddles? That could increase your shoes and socks getting drenched. I know this was mentioned toward the end, but was not explained in the voiceover.

I remember when Mythbusters covered this one. I was surprised by the answer.

I don't really like the idea of running top speed through the rain, since it seems like there is a much higher chance of slipping.

The flash in the rain avoiding every drop of water to stay dry. "Is this a selfish use of my powers?"

I know the clouds must have been laughing discovering humans aint found a way to avoid getting rain on them without using a umbrella.

Don‘t forget the cold making it rain, and me wanting to get inside quicker to warm up

People run in the rain. not to get less wet but, to be wet for a shorter time.

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There’s no argument here. The longer you stay in the rain the more wet you get. Run inside=less time getting rained on

Actually this seems like a logic answer although i tried it on myself too.. one other thing i noticed is that if its cold and rainy and you run through the rain, it will pump ul your metabolism and so the water sucked up by the clothes will disappear sooner so you dry faster after getting wet👍

Answer at around 6:00

Wow this video was really helpful! Just wish I watched it before I decided to stand in the pouring rain for 7 minutes and 17 seconds watching this.

has anyone else noticed youtube videos tricking viewers into skipping into the advertisement segment by having the progress bar show peak watch-time at the point where the advertisement is?

"Any amount of physical exertion is horrible" that made me laugh out loud, the icing on the cake. : D

I’ve always thought about this in extremes. If the rain was a constant, and you could choose to move as fast as a literal snail or as fast as a speeding bullet to get to a dry area, which one would you choose with the intention of staying as dry as possible?

"oh it started raining... Well what else can i do? **Continues walking** " That's my personal answer

This is the perfect video to watch at midnight and I am doing exactly that.

^The animation is so cute ! Little jumps once you reach cover, asmr droplets, and so on. Haha I had a good time.

Depends. Run when I'm happy, Walk when I'm sad

I always run when the first drops start falling so that I can get to shelter as soon as possible because the rain is likely to get heavier after the first minute or so. These equations are only assuming a constant rainfall.

Easiest solution: When raining go outside, just one step away from the door without cover. Scenario #1: step back, sit down inside, wait one hour. Scenario #2: keep standing outside (without cover) for an hour. Hypothesis: if running does not matter you would be similarly wet in both scenarios.

To be fair, I'd much more like to know how they determined the concept of wetness. Assuming several rainfalls will fall vertically onto your shoulder one after another, they'll start to repeatedly hit the same spots and depending on the surface repellent properties of your clothes, water droplets will preferably run down the already wettened surfaces creating specific surface areas on your clothes that will experience higher water exposure rates than others. This in return implies, that running itself, which puts emphasis on large movements of ones bodies' excrements, will increase the probability of being hit by raindrops from different angles, increasing the overall wet surface area of your clothes at spots that are less exposed to the rain (e.g., under your arms) and thus the overall wetness factor, as the water droplets have a higher wettened surface area to distribute onto. Additionally, the water droplet's flowing course will be erratically altered during large body movements, which in return shows the importance of assessing the full extent of every individual movement at a given speed. If however rather absorbant clothes are worn, the water is likely to spread along the fibre more equally and in such a case, the angle of the impingent raindrop would be less of a deciding factor than the overall water mass that comes into contact with the clothes. Hence, the exposure time to rain becomes dominates the clothe's wetness.

Also the problem with running is that you may catch a cold if running for too long of a distance if you don't recover for a while in warmer place. According to me the greater the distance, the slower you should run, but the slowest speed should be your typical slow jogging.

This should be a sport, running in the rain.

No, just simply, SING IN THE RAAAIN

Schoolboy me running to make sure my books don't get wet : 10% less wet means a lottttt!!!

When i was a child....i thought i can dodge the rain while running🤣🤣

Finally, someone talked about this

_The quicker you get out of the rain the better. When you are already soaked, there is no way to get over soaked, but when you are already soaked running helps you to keep you warm, and prevents you to catch a pneumonia or something related_

Let's just hope we don't get some sort of deadly rain or acid rain anytime soon, otherwise this video might just be your saviour!

Great topic: is it a good idea and how efficient is it to turn the stove to maximum then the correct temp or to set it to correct in the first plaxe

As a student who carried backpack outside most of the time, I have to run so it doesn’t get wet as much as when I walk.

Tested with my friend in distance and time 5 years ago. Running 10m in rain, less wet. Walking 10m in rain, more wet. Running 3s in rain, less wet. Walking 3s in rain, more wet.

if you are caught in a very dense downpour then it really does not matter if you run or not you will get drenched anyway

TLDR: You run

Solution: Run. If you run, you will be at your destination quicker and you will have time to dry up. If you walk and become tortoise 2.0, you’re going to see the doctor or the person giving you the interview while you’re wet since you wouldn’t have time to dry up. For once, the hare wins the race.

Usually, if I'm wearing a hooded coat or have an umbrella, I just don't need to run actually, unless I'm in a hurry for something important, with or without rain anyway... Otherwise, yep : downright gonna' run !