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Should we walk or run in rain?

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Well, this matters if you are running or walking outdoors or indoors. Just kidding.😜😜. But, What will make you more wet? Is it walking at some constant speed or using your leg muscles at it's maximum? Let's find out. The walkers: When you walk on the rain, you will be giving more time to the nature to pour water on you and that will make you wet. The drops will fall mainly upon your head and shoulder. That part of your body will wet faster than other. The runners: If you will run you will be hitting more rain drops but you will be spending lesser time in rain. This way your body will soak water from the front and the head while the remaining part of your body will stay safe from water. If you've ever rode bike during mild rain then you definitely have experienced this situation. So, What to Do? What can be helpful for you to save from the rain water. Let's see what science says about this. Mythbusters had already tested this question and found t...

What is color blindness and how do color blind people see the world?

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It is an eye disease in which the person fails to distinguish between various color difference. They miss to see red, green and light blue. Our eye is a gift to us from our mother nature. Made out of numerous complex system of neurons, it helps  us to see the colorful world around us. Although, we still can't to see a very wide region of electromagnetic spectrum , it is still very helpful for our daily needs. So, how do we actually see a thing? Common answer : when light of certain range of wavelengths, reflects from an objects and reaches our eye, it's image is formed on retina of the eye and we see that object. Well, it does not end there. Part of light that reaches our eyes hits our retina. Our retina is itself made up of thousands of cones and rods. These cones and rods are the photo-receptors, that are responsible for the vision. They connect our eye to the optical nerves system with our brain. The cone part of the retina adjusts the color of the object and th...

What happens when lightning strucks airplane?

Nothing serious happens because the modern airplanes are engineered such that it protects the plane. While traveling by air you may have felt a turbulence that may caused by any factor such as interaction of warm and cold air, uneven air-current and in some less cases lightning. Lightning, itself sounds dangerous, can do a lot damage to every living animal and trees or any property. How does a lightning is formed? lightning is a phenomenon of electric discharge that occurs during the thunder storm. This mainly balances the charges between the clouds or the cloud and ground.so, lightning may strike between the clouds or between cloud and ground. The sudden flash during this phenomenon is a hot plasma that is due the abrupt flow of electron that we actually see and hear the pressure waves from ground.              Watch lightning between the clouds at 6200 frames per second in the video below.         ...