Study: Walk a little faster, and you could survive a tsunami

[MechAg94]

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/04/15/study-walk-little-faster-and-could-survive-tsunami/

Please do read the link.  I want to know if you agree that this is the most useless information I have seen offered under a headline in quite a while.  X number of people live within Y distance of high ground.  If they move faster, they will reach high ground faster.     Really?  Maybe running would be useful or a bicycle. 

It is one of those headlines that seems like it might provide useful information, but really doesn't.  Sort of like a political speech. 

[wmenorr67]

Drive slower and use less gas.

[MechAg94]

I think it may be all the people who hated written math problems.

"A tsunami is going to hit in 30 minutes.  Suzy has to get to high ground 1.5 miles away.  How fast must Suzy walk to reach high ground before the tsunami hits?"

I start to wonder if the movie Idiocracy had it wrong.  It won't take 500 years to reach that point. 

[vaskidmark]

I for one, am impressed by the study results.  Thanks to Lead author Nathan Wood, a geographer for the U.S. Geological Survey in Portland, Oregon, and the rest of the study team we now have peer-reviewed scientific findings that bear out the validity of the old wives' tale supposition that walking faster than the tsunami tidal wave in order to get to ground higher than that wave will inundate the landmass will usually result in not being drowned by the tidal wave.

Without this scientific study people would remain conflicted about whether it was worth the effort to walk faster to safety and perhaps lose the equivalent of several person-months of sleep worrying about what to do should a tsunami tidal wave be coming.  Now they can rest easy on that score and go back to obsessing over who will win the next round of America's Dancing With People Who Someone Without Any Taste Says Have Talent.

stay safe.

[bedlamite]

In other news, they have determined that water is in fact wet.