MM> VH> Simple vector analysis -- if you run, you increase the horizontal
MM> VH> vector, which results in an overall increase in closing velocity
MM> VH> between you and the rain drops.  Since you are running THROUGH the
MM> VH> rain, the drops are coming at you faster, even though you are in the
MM> VH> rain less time.

MM>So the theory goes - these worthies verified the notion by
MM>dividing a group of typical English students at random into two,
MM>weighed them on special scales and then sent them running or
MM>walking around a normalised quod on a standard-issue British
MM>summer's day.  Everybody was reweighed on their return, when the
MM>runners were signifigantly heavier than the walkers, at a p>0.005.

MM>Nobly done,  I felt, even though there was no attempt to
MM>extrapolate the results to, say, ordinary Kiwis who might well be
MM>denied the same consequence because of some Coriolic variable and
MM>be forced to attain a similar level of p by processing pint upon
MM>pint of pale Pilsener....

They could have achieved the same effect in Ireland, with Guiness. :-)
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