Do you get less wet if you run in the rain?
That’s a fantastic question, and you are just lying or plain stupid if you’ve never thought of it. The BBC investigates. And they get
a Master of Science in astrophysics and a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society
to write it. The BBC rules.
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Yay, Lara Croft in Ireland!
Feshti's back and this time he's counting down the top 10 movie opening scenes of all time.
Is American opinion and culture crowding out all others?
Didn’t brainiac do this not so long ago. Although they just had that guy from Top Gear and a bunch of slackers.
Comment by eddie — December 30, 2005 @ 8:51 am
It just so happens that I stumbled across something similar at The Straight Dope the other day. It dates from 1992. http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_395.html
Comment by conor — December 30, 2005 @ 10:32 am
Mythbusters did it too.
Comment by Don Speekingleesh — December 30, 2005 @ 12:34 pm
“I stumbled across something similar.”
How am I supposed to stumble across it too if you don’t link to it?
Comment by danger — December 30, 2005 @ 1:21 pm
Unless I’m wrong, and I could be, but I rarely am, the link is at the end of my comment. Here it is again. I’ll say it slowly this time: http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_395.html
Comment by conor — December 30, 2005 @ 1:56 pm
My point was why didn’t you link it when you stumbled across it the other day.
Comment by danger — December 30, 2005 @ 2:05 pm
ok. i was busy testing out the theories. counting raindrop-hits is time-consuming work, you know.
Comment by conor — December 30, 2005 @ 2:19 pm