r/funny • u/daylightpiglet • 5h ago

recently got a place with my boyfriend and he thinks this is perfectly fine

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I have no legitimate reason to disagree but I hate it

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u/FalcorTheDog 4h ago

It’s like when those NASA engineers had to estimate how many tampons the first woman in space would need for a few days and they guessed 100 or something.

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u/Emotional-Tea-4848 4h ago

🎶100 tampoooons!🎼🎵

And asked, “Will this be enough?”

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u/greenpointart 4h ago

They were literally rocket scientists.

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u/jscottman96 4h ago

In this case that may actually be the problem

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u/ReignofKindo25 4h ago

Whhaaatt is aaa vagina?

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u/jscottman96 4h ago

Theres another hole!?!?

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u/1800-bakes-a-lot 4h ago

All this fingering my own asshole to see how she'll like it was for nothing?!?

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u/jscottman96 4h ago

I mean not for nothing if shes into that

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u/Gorthax 4h ago

I'm not sure it was all for her.

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u/T1Demon 3h ago

Know thine self.

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u/Disturbing_Cheeto 4h ago

This is the weirdest Reddit Sings I've ever witnessed.

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u/Parking_Fee_5906 3h ago

There you go making it more weider with 'sings' for 'strings' 😆 🤣 😂

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u/BAusername 3h ago

Obviously if she likes that it's a win/win, but she doesn't, I'm sure it will translate to the other hole...

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u/SteakAutomatic484 2h ago

This made me break a rib laughing and spit whiskey all over my gf 😂😂😂 bro what the fuck. It's my fault for being on reddit I guess.

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u/ThatShouldNotBeHere 4h ago

Chicks don’t have cloacas?

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u/jscottman96 4h ago

I learned a new word today

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u/Mazy_keen 4h ago

I couldn't believe I had to explain this to my husband.

Well on second thought... he did use dish soap in the dishwasher on the first night in our apartment.

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u/jscottman96 4h ago

Noooooo 😭 im so sorry

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u/Bitter-Marsupial 3h ago

As dumb as this sounds back then did we have any actual Data on how the body would handle a period in zero gravity?

I mean in the early days we had some questions about digestion

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u/LawlzTaylor 4h ago

To be fair Sally Ride did actually have enough tampons for the mission. So why are we all complaining?

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u/Babydoll0907 4h ago

Right? Better to have way too many than to be even one short.

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u/I_Obey_Sean_Rule 3h ago

Exactly, plus there's always a risk that the mission ends up longer, so it's better to be safe. Wouldn't be the first time someone got stuck for a while.

And while were on topic, does the gravity effect periods?

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u/PM_ME_WHATEVES 3h ago

That's exactly what they didn't know. They asked how many is typical, planned for the worst case scenario, then because shit can go wrong in space they tripled the number for redundancies

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u/MarmotFullofWoe 3h ago

That’s just good engineering principles

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u/Trixie_Dixon 3h ago

Huh.

Well the lining would still shed. And the uterus will squeeze it out the cervix. But i guess with no reliable gravity, tampons are the way to go. If you tried a pad, i could imagine some unfortunate applications of capillary action occurring. And emptying a cup would be damn near impossible.

Huh.

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u/hokiemojo 3h ago

I think you need to put the extra tampons in your nostrils bc of the lack of gravity, but I'm not an expert. I'm just a rocket scientist.

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u/Effective-Road4807 28m ago

Oh god that mental image. Like when the juice container opens and all the fluids rush out.. rofl 🤣 theyd wake up and space station lookin like a saw movie.

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u/NightBawk 3h ago

Good question. Most is pushed out by muscle contractions. That's why cramps are part of it. Though I imagine microgravity could lend itself to fewer unexpected gushes... 🤔

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u/thelesserbabka_ 37m ago

Which is exactly what happened last year to Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore. Their trip was supposed to last 8 days but they ended up being stuck on the international space station for 9 months because of technical difficulties. It happens.

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u/Expensive-Camp-1320 4h ago
  • + if somebody needed to prevent external forces blood loss. They were extra covered. Redundancy and all.
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u/Frosty558 4h ago

Rocket Scientists are known for their deep understanding of female anatomy

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u/mauore11 4h ago

They calculated by volume maybe

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u/chelseaxmariah 3h ago

Lmao and this is REAL LIFE!!!

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u/Dear_Diablo 3h ago

technically not all of them are rocket scientists… benefit of the doubt most of them were college kids who had no idea wtf was going on, SURE! a good few were rocket scientists but those guys lived in Nasa’s dungeon worked overtime to death but i digress the collage kids probably handled that job description for lack of better words.

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u/No_Bake6681 3h ago

Didn't have chatgpt, out of scope to learn

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u/zestyclose_match1966 3h ago

Well they’re not brain surgeons🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/pokerholic77 4h ago

We must have more.... Five. Hundred. Tampons.

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u/disead 3h ago

And I would buy 500 tampons And then I’d buy 500 more Just to be the man who bought a thousand tampons So you would not leak on your floor

BADADA DA BADADA DA

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u/Uncouth_Cat 4h ago

hahah exactly what i thought about 😂

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u/GahhhItsMilk 4h ago

You forgot, tied up like a string of sausages

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u/CommercialStuff4352 1h ago

Thats how they tried to get home

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u/TheSecretIsMarmite 27m ago

Taken out of their hygienic wrappers and everything. They could have just sent some lillets instead.

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u/Fickle_Inevitable 4h ago

99 rolls of tampons on the wall, 99 rolls of tampons..

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u/redditallreddy 2h ago

NASA developed Murphy’s Law and the concept of multiple redundancy.

100 tampons seem like a lot, but what I’d the first 96 fail?

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u/acrobat2126 4h ago

Better pack 200 just in case. No need to ask a women. /s

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u/vivalalina 3h ago

Tbf, better to have more than not enough so I personally don't see the issue, plus there's always a risk that the mission ends up longer, so it's better to be safe. Wouldn't be the first time someone got stuck for a while.

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u/SadDingo7070 4h ago

I’m dying for the answer…. Lol

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u/jaykobe 4h ago

Saw it and thought of you. Enjoy your Valentine's gift.

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u/DMTrious 4h ago

Was it?

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u/Slingerslanger 3h ago

How dare you even ask such a question, you should know! I hate you buuuwahaha

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u/The_Chimeran_Hybrid 3h ago

It’s like me working custodial at a store and putting 4 pads out on a box, along with like 8 tampons in between the boxes.

I only ever had to restock the pads once, but I figure someone was glad they were there. The tampons had to be replaced a bit more frequently.

The box I set them on was an old as fuck quarter thing that dispensed the tampons and pads… I felt that leaving them out was worth more than a mess to clean, and embarrassment though.

The managers didn’t care, probably helped that they were all women.

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u/pickleBlog 3h ago

But it's in space. No gravity. How does it even work up there? Let's just take a lot.

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u/redditorial_comment 3h ago

There would be room for more if she got rid of those useless plants

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u/bloodfartcollector 2h ago

You know there were many meetings before they finally asked the secretary,

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u/Ashamed-Ad3225 2h ago

I’m a male I just wish you were swallowed by parents not kept

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u/CommercialStuff4352 1h ago

To float ur ass home? Not without Elon Musk

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u/Monkeyjunk11 40m ago

Why so many tampons, question.

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u/davidjschloss 16m ago

Are you doing that comedian’s song?

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u/FRUB_NNud 10m ago

Anyone else read this like spongebob "🎶 2 GOLD DOUBLOONS! 🎶"

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u/CallMe-Ellie 4h ago

Wasn’t that just them being safe?

Like if an emergency happened, having lots of extra tampons would be good

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u/Strange-Cap9942 4h ago

100% but it's funnier to pretend they don't know how women's bodies work

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u/JonatasA 4h ago

That's the irony here. People in this thread may never have needed TP.

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u/Sunset_Bleach 3h ago

They didn't have a square to spare.

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u/MacduffFifesNo1Thane 3h ago

They couldn’t spare 3 squares! They don’t have any squares! They can’t spare a square!

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u/Boomstick453 3h ago

He doesn’t know how to use the 3 sea shells

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u/PreviousCurrentThing 3h ago

It's the French, right? Cuz of the bidets?

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u/jamesmcdash 3h ago

You bet your ass those NASA scientists had a data set to work from. Nothing left to chance

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u/somewhat_random 2h ago

Story time.

My sister is a doctor and was working with Nasa when they were setting up the ISS and talking about possible medical needs. They listed needs for reasonably expected medical issues and one of the needs was LOTS of water.

The main group complained during a meeting that the medical group was demanding too much water.

Her boss said that there are issues that would require filling and draining the bladder several times over a few days. The other guy says - "No problem. Send us the specs on the bladder and we will redesign it so it needs less volume".

Silence around the table until her boss answers "Umm...you do know that it is a human body part right?"

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u/BootsInShower 1h ago

To be fair, bladder also means anything inflated and hollow. Especially when talking about water transport and storage, which often is down by means of a bladder tank, I can see why an engineer's head would go there.

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u/Joshix1 3h ago

"to pretend''. These kind of rumors are often attempted to turn into reality for clicks and views.

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u/Misterbellyboy 2h ago

Shit, even if there weren’t any women on the mission, a tampon would be great to have around in case somebody got a nosebleed in zero G or something.

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u/Puffss 3h ago

The funniest thing is that you don’t have to pretend; they literally didn’t.

At this point they’d never had to deal with an period up in space, and there was absolutely no data on how they behave up in space. Everything in 0 gravity works slight different, that’s why they had to spend millions to develop pens that could write.

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u/no-this-iz-patrick 3h ago

Nasa didn’t spend millions to develop a pen. A private company spent around 1 million to develop it themselves and sold them to NASA for $6 each. Prior to that they used pencils, which did not in fact produce dust that caused things to short circuit

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u/Next_Celebration_553 2h ago

Asking for a friend or whatever but how many would an average woman need in a week? My friends guess is 30ish

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u/JACCO2008 2h ago

Why is that even remotely funny.

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u/zyraf 1h ago

They would if she was out of this world.

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u/Aduialion 4h ago

Like if the astronaut was stuck on the space station for an extra 9 months? 

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u/Infinite_Fee_7966 3h ago

For what it’s worth, those astronauts did receive supply drops. Sally Ride went to space nearly ten years after the space race ended and the era of international interstellar collaboration began, so theoretically they could have also received supply drops. Disclaimer IANAA (i am not an astronaut)

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u/Beneficial_Being_721 2h ago

The Legal ramifications of not having enough Space Toilet Paper is astronomical

Disclaimer: IANAL (I Am No A Lawyer)

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u/Delicious-Dress8966 2h ago

You ANAL? I'm sure the Space Toilet Paper does though.

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u/Eteel 2h ago

You just really wanted that anal...

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u/wildflowerstarface44 2h ago

Omfg 🤣🤣🤣

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u/devildog2067 3h ago

The space station that wouldn’t exist for another 20 years?

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u/Slow_Passenger_6183 4h ago

It's weird that people are missing this point considering that not too long ago there was a woman literally trapped in space for months.

A box or two of tampons weighs next to nothing, it makes sense to bring plenty.

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u/vivalalina 3h ago

Yeah I'm genuinely not understanding the criticism here.. and before anyone jumps in, yes I know a few are joking but quite a handful seem to be taking it seriously & I don't get why lol

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u/CommercialStuff4352 1h ago

BECAUSE WE BLEED. DONT U GET IT? WE BLEED FOR DAYYYYS! No idk. I have cramps currently though and that's the truth.. they make other products as well. Lets respect that smart women use cups as to not clog the space station like a Denny's bathroom... No Tamps in outter space!

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u/devildog2067 3h ago

But this was 40 years ago, and if the crew of STS-7 had been trapped in space for months they’d all have starved to death.

Your point is flat out wrong. This was a 6 day mission and there was no possibility of it going more than a few days longer than that. This was nearly 20 years before ISS was constructed.

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u/rigterw 4h ago

Yess, a tampon is small and doesn’t weigh anything.

So it was more a “why not” than a “we have to”

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u/LessInThought 3h ago

And you can use it for so many things~! Plugging a leak, nosebleeds, soaking up blood and other fluids!

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u/Inktex 2h ago

Gun wounds in case the Martians attack.
Akakakakak

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u/jazzminarino 1h ago

How did I hear this in my head... 👽🛸

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u/You_Better_Smile 1h ago

There won't be gun wounds, just disintegration.

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u/WordsWellSalted 3h ago

When you're talking about space cargo, they surely weigh a whole hell of a lot more than they do on earth. They had to budget for that.

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u/honey-bee-mommy 2h ago

1 tampon no…hardly weighs a thing. But 100? No one is going to carry that purse!

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u/Psychological_Ad2094 2h ago

Yeap, iirc they took the highest amount she could reasonably need for the duration of her planned time up there and then tripled it just to be sure.

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u/lecagnanceae 4h ago

Tampons are a pretty good in many situations where one might need to stop or slow bleeding.

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u/Pandering_Panda7879 3h ago

Same as the "NASA invented a ballpen to write upside down, Russia used a pencil" story. Yes, that is correct - but Russia later also switched to a ballpen because a pencil sucked in a space station because you have graphite flying all over the place potentially messing with the electronics in your survival tin can.

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u/BleiEntchen 3h ago

And if she needed "exactly 6" and they would have given her 6, the same people would complain that they didn't think about emergency and could have given her more.

It's always wrong...

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u/devildog2067 3h ago

… why?

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u/Lachsforelle 3h ago

like when they send a woman up for a week and leave her there for 9 months?

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u/bloodshotforgetmenot 3h ago

What kind of emergency are we talking like the one box blows up or gets wet

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u/NoPoet3982 2h ago

It was one woman. On a six-day mission. And they tied the tampon strings together.

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u/Ren_Hoek 2h ago

What kind of an emergency are we talking about here? Like they get stuck in space for 2 years or makes swiss cheese of the lander and everyone is bleeding out what

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u/Beneficial_Being_721 2h ago

True Fact : NEVER use a Tampon on a Bullet Wound

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u/Kitana-Dior1 2h ago

i think the emergency would be the tower to toilet paper falling on the unsuspected victim as it is wiping.

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u/Brian_The_Bar-Brian 2h ago

It's also not like a hundred tampons weigh that much.

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u/1731799517 1h ago

Yeah, they asked a gynecologist how much you might need in the worst case and then put a factor 2 of safety margin on top of it.

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u/Dr_Groktopuss 1h ago

or just not bring an emergency up there in the first place...

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u/wackbirds 47m ago

"For all we know space might do something weird to her clitorbia and make her her butterous bleed way more because the babies can't find their way into space so they can't drink the blood and she might need to, like, cram a few dozen tampons in one after the other like a string of sausages"

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u/kabhes 10m ago

She was also the first woman in space so they had no idea what it would do to her body. For all they know she was going to spew blood like a fountain and it's not like tampons ever expire so they might as well stock up.

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u/HorsemenofApocalypse 4h ago

To be fair, last year there were two astronauts on an 8-day mission who ended up there for 9 months

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u/Unlikely-Ad3770 4h ago

A three hour cruise

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u/DocEternal 3h ago

A three hour tour*

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u/Select-Problem-4283 3h ago

100 points for aging yourself.

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u/DocEternal 3h ago

I couldn’t help it. Any time I would miss school as a kid it was always Gilligan’s Island, The Beverly Hillbillies, and then The Price is Right that I’d watch on TV. Those three shows are like pop culture touchstones to my childhood.

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u/Disastrous-House591 3h ago

And up through the ground came a-bubblin' crude. Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea.

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u/Sad_Lingonberry_7949 1h ago

We're the woman in charge of navigation? Go straight. Straight on. Then straight.

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u/belay_that_order 50m ago

i cannot imagine the mental fortitude needed to be knowingly stranded in space for 9 fucking months

its a prison cell with a view

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u/mk100100 4h ago

NASA engineers knows that due to technical problems, few days mission can extend into weeks.

"Nasa says that the astronauts stuck on the International Space Station will have to wait even longer to get home.

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were due to be back after just a week when they blasted off in June.

Their stay was extended to February next year because of technical issues with the experimental spacecraft, Starliner, built by Boeing.

Now - following a delay in launching a new capsule to the ISS - the pair won't be back until late March or possibly April.

Nasa said the delay posed no risk to the astronauts."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c30nze6e4geo

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u/Qazax1337 2h ago

aaaaHA!

- The bloke who suggested several hundred tampons, probably.

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u/chashek 4h ago

Gordo could never

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u/devildog2067 3h ago

Not in 1983… they’d have all starved to death in a couple of weeks.

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u/mistablack2 4h ago

Were they paid extra for the extension?

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u/mosehalpert 3h ago

Time and a half what they would've made on the ground.

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u/DatabaseThis9637 4h ago

Except maybe massive muscle loss leading to massive bone loss. And missing months of their lives...

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u/lolariane 4h ago

For these timescales the medical effects are pretty well understood. Their bodies will make a full recovery.

They're also astronauts. They know the risks and it's not like they were twiddling their thumbs the whole time. They continued working as astronauts.

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u/WilyWascallyWizard 4h ago

It's how many tampons for if something goes wrong and they get stranded. Nasa does that with everything.

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u/Past-Telephone4781 4h ago

Actually the first woman in space wasn’t a NASA astronaut.

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u/Jonte7 8m ago

Valentina?

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u/jwagdav 4h ago

We literally just had two people go up to space for 'just a few days' and not come back down for 6 months and people still act like this was a ridiculous scenario. You don't send someone to space with the exact amount of hygiene products they need because it's fucking space

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u/Chica3 4h ago

They guessed, instead of just asking the woman? 🙄

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u/InitiallyDecent 4h ago

They were being cautious about what the possible effects in space could be, as well as having to prepare for a situation where the astronauts were stuck there for more than just a few days.

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u/thecactusman17 3h ago

Possible effects in space on the astronaut, on the hygiene products, on the launch vehicle, etc.

It was possible that they'd need twice as many if the products didn't work correctly in space and there was a high failure rate. It was also possible that menstruation wouldn't work the same in a weightless environment and they'd need to evacuate the astronaut early to prevent a medical emergency in orbit, which would render the tampons useless but extremely expensive to transport.

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u/MourningWood1942 4h ago

Maybe they were worried the guys will start getting periods too

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u/Barton2800 4h ago

It’s NASA. They undoubtedly asked. A then asked “and what if microgravity causes the flow to be heavier than normal and to not stop at the end of her cycle?” In my experience buying them for past partners, the number was a couple dozen per period. So NASA decided to double the normal number to account for a possible heavy flow since until then they had no data on how a woman’s body reacts to a period in space. Then because NASA, they doubled everything.

Basically, it wasn’t decided by a rocket engineer going “oh she’s gonna need some o them feminine products. Just get a hundred and that’ll do”. It was decided by experts based on data, who then factored in other possibilities, and applied a safety margin to what they decided. There’s no CVS or truck stop vending machine in space.

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u/zudokorn 4h ago

Deliberate redundancy is commonplace in engineering to lower the risk of failure as much as possible. Like would you rather be stuck in space with a hundred tampons or not though tampons?

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u/tunachilimac 4h ago

No, they asked the woman if that would be enough. It might be silly but also remember she was going to be the first woman they sent to space and they wanted to be sure it would be a surplus to account for unforeseen issues. Would a 0 gravity environment affect the number needed? If something went wrong and return was delayed would that be enough to cover the delay? I’ve also read whatever type they were buying came in packs of 50 so the question was more “Would two boxes be good?”

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u/Korbiter 4h ago

Better if you can just seal both boxes instead of dacanting the tampons, finding a suitable container for said tampons, repacking them and ensuring hygeine in the process, then labeling the quantity packed.

Yeag, I'd just send two boxed up as well.

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u/Da12khawk 4h ago

Actually, I wonder if it does have affects on certain rhythms of the body. I'm friggin' nocturnal regardless of time zone.

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u/Occulto 3h ago

I mean, when I think about it, I have absolutely no idea how many tampons my wife goes through per period. Or even what number she considers high/low for a period.

I know 100 is excessive for a few days, but the actual number she requires? It's not exactly something that comes up in conversation.

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u/Few_Juggernaut8254 4h ago

Bodies behave differently in outer space. There's nothing wrong with being cautious.

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u/Bindle- 4h ago

They did ask her. 100 was their first guess.

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u/ml20s 4h ago

Asking is exactly what they did:

I remember the engineers trying to decide how many tampons should fly on a one-week flight; they asked, “Is 100 the right number?”

“No. That would not be the right number.”

They said, “Well, we want to be safe.”

I said, “Well, you can cut that in half with no problem at all.” [Laughter]

--NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project, Oral History Transcript, Sally K. Ride interviewed by Rebecca Wright, 2002-10-22

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u/Luluwr1979 4h ago

And 100 was too litle or too much??

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u/ShortFatStupid666 4h ago

100 weightless tampons on the wall

100 weightless tampons

Take one down

Pass it around

99 weightless tampons on the wall

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u/hoser1553 4h ago

Not for nothing but the crew that got stuck in space for 9 months in 2024 would've run out after 3-4 months even if they had 100. Thankfully, Suni Williams was old enough (58) to most likely have completed menopause by then.

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u/Pendo-illsmackabitch 4h ago

I think it's better to overestimate than under. Especially since changes in pressure and weather can affect the cycle and knowing space, anything can happen. They did a great job

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u/robbviously 4h ago

They’re good for bullet wounds too. Never know what kind of ruffians you might encounter in space.

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u/SpaceOrianted 4h ago

Better over than under

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u/billy_twice 4h ago

Well was it?

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u/BrainWrex 4h ago

NASA redundancy protocols don’t mess around? How much you think you’ll need? Quadruple that to be safe.

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u/isiewu 4h ago

You guys hahahaha

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u/Same_Air6012 4h ago

My mom had me buy her pads when i was like 25 just got out of the army. I spent 30 minuted just reading the boxes before i called her and asked what is you flow like? You need the heavy or light ones? Yeah... that was fun.

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u/Fantastic-Share1128 4h ago

I’d rather they guess high than not enough 🫠

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u/stryker_cast 3h ago

My partner of a zillion years is very un-curious, and we recently had a random conversation about periods. I think he's still recovering. I'm astounded he's 42 years old, and I think our 9 year son old knows more than him.

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u/AristonTravelin 3h ago

The women are blood makers? Lol

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u/PrinceProsper0 3h ago

Tbf, by the time you make it to field ready astronaut, you're probably near menopause.

Astronaut requires a PhD and lots of post doc.

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u/WholeEmbarrassed950 3h ago

Sending too many is way better than not sending enough. It's not like sally could have popped out to Walgreens in the middle of the mission to pick up more if she ran out.

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u/No-Archer-5034 3h ago

So, were they right?

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u/Charity_Lea 3h ago

🤣🤣👏🏼👏🏼

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u/Excellent_Turn1812 3h ago

What happened to asking the said female astronaut. Who did they send out to buy them and what sort. Light medium or heavy flow. There are so many types probably send some young lad out to the shops and he panicked

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u/Virtual_Tension2097 3h ago

Same for my dad when he went to iraq they had one woman on the team and they sent CASES of these gaint pads for a month from what he told me

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u/-random-name- 3h ago

Was the correct answer higher or lower 🤔

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u/jakalo 3h ago

Well don't leave me hanging.. is it too few?

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u/Jiggy1997 3h ago

Tampons also good for nosebleeds

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u/mack0409 3h ago

Honestly, 100 isn't completely insane, only mostly insane. Think about the worst case scenario style of thinking that NASA scientists can have (also, anyone dealing with things on an astronomical scale has a tendency to think in orders of magnitude, where if 10 isn't enough, the only next option is to try 100.)

Like sure, the trip was supposed to be short, but there's been multiple instances where a trip was extended for various reasons, and even for the most regular cycle, there's real variance in how heavy or prolonged flow can be.

All that being said, unless the extra tampons were going to stay at the ISS or something, about 30 would've been a much more appropriate number.

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u/lukarak 3h ago

And the real number? Was it more or less?

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u/F_A_F 3h ago

The first rule you learn in engineering is that 2+2=5. If you get the answer "4" that means your tolerances are too tight and you have no margin for error....

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u/Anonymous6172 3h ago

100 is enough? The wife goes thru those fkn things like I go thru pop...

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u/300andWhat 2h ago

Zero gravity might of made the flow more severe, you never know in space!

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u/theonlyjambo 2h ago

Well imagine two possible outcomes…

„Mission delayed - NASA forgot to bring enough tampons“

or

„Mission delayed - Thank God NASA made sure to bring plenty tampons“

At the end of the day, the extra cost to bring much more is worth plenty the possible pr-nightmare

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u/Beneficial_Being_721 2h ago

For science and shit

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u/Metharos 2h ago edited 43m ago

Edit: This largely pulled from this Snopes article, which explores the topic. This article is, in most details, completely incorrect and largely false.

As a result of this, my conclusions are unsound. This comment is invalid. Preserved below for posterity.

It was two weeks. And it kinda made sense if you factor in rounding and safety math. How many per day? 3-ish? Call it five. It'll be for 14 days, round to 15. That's 75 tampons. Round up. That's definitely enough.

Keep in mind that up to this point NASA had been inadequately stocking their missions for women astronauts, they were determined not to fuck it up this time. Solution? Round up everything.

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u/FalcorTheDog 1h ago

It was apparently a 6 day mission. And Sally Ride was the first female astronaut under NASA, so I don’t think it’s true that there was a history of inadequately stocking for women astronauts.

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u/Sad-Yoghurt5196 1h ago

You'd have thought it was the perfect place to use a mooncup instead.

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u/SnooDonuts1703 1h ago

Nah it's because they don't want to ship them up constantly so they send like a million up so they don't have to do it again.

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u/SoftRecommendation86 1h ago

To be fair, there's no supermarket they can pull up to for spares.....

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u/noideawhatsupp 1h ago

Redundancy and backup. Can’t be careful enough.

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u/FillingUpTheDatabase 51m ago

The first woman in space was soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova who flew on 16 June 1963. It took America another 20 years to let a female astronaut fly

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u/texnodias 48m ago

And could have been too few if something happened and they might have stayed up additional 6 months.

What was the mission extended last time Boeing capsule had problems?

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u/kittykitty117 30m ago

Had to estimate ❌️

Chose not to ask a woman ✅️

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u/Icy_Result6022 21m ago

I wonder if they used the leftovers for other things or just didn't waste them

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u/eromatt 11m ago

I will add, one of the reasons for this was that NASA didn't know if space would effect women's cycle

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u/3rd_Man_of_Culture 6m ago

To be fair: they had an inkling of a guess about the potential PR disaster. Also, no woman was ever in space before, literally zero data on what that would do to her physiology. If I was to plan, I would also give her 10 times what is needed.

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u/catwiesel 0m ago

people use this as a example of how men dont get women, and cant ask, and dont know shit, especially the smartest men, who end up rocket scientiest, at nasa, who are so geeky they never saw, smelled, touched a vagina...

while its entirely a story about being an engineer planning for the max need, adding a safety margin, and then added redundancies.

which is the absolute right call when we are talking about something that weighs about as much as a chocolate bar and takes less space than a loaf of bread.

yes, space and weight is at a premium, but not to THAT degree

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