I've heard there is no definitive answer to the following question:
Do you get less wet by running through the rain, or walking?
For years, I thought that you would be equally wet no matter your speed of transportation, because you would be occupying the same amount of space as you progressed through your journey and thus would collect the same amount of water. But yesterday, as I rode my bike to work through the rain, I realized this is wrong. In the same way that a slow moving storm has a better chance of causing flash floods because all of it's water is concetrated on the same land, a slow moving body is exposed to water at the same rate as a fast moving one, but for a longer period of time. Thus the runner would collect less water than the walker.
Of course, I'm right, right?
A physician one night in Wisconsin being disturbed by a burglar, and
having no ball or shot for his pistol, noiselessly loaded the weapon with
small, hard pills, and gave the intruder a "prescription" which he thinks
will go far towards curing the rascal of a very bad ailment.
-- Nevada Morning Transcript, January 30, 1861

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