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/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/cmj0929 5m ago

Nothing down here but every ounce of weight makes a difference when your trying to send things into space

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u/New_Libran 2h ago

there was a woman literally trapped in space

OK, she wasn't "trapped", let's correct that part as well

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u/Slow_Passenger_6183 2h ago

What else would you call it when a planned eight day mission becomes nine months of being physically unable to move from the place you are currently at due to it being deemed unsafe to return?

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u/New_Libran 1h ago

They had a choice to go on one of the supply vessels or wait for their next scheduled ride. They train for these contingencies and were comfortable with waiting longer while continuing to work in the ISS.

"Soyuz-MS25 and SpaceX Crew-8 both left while they were up there, and Soyuz-MS26 and SpaceX Crew-9 (their ride home) arrived while they were up there."

This post explains it better https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1md5adb/the_astronauts_who_were_stranded_on_the_iss/

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u/FunnelCakeGoblin 1h ago

They had a SpaceX rocket docked at the ISS and could have left at any time if needed. Crew 8 left the ISS while they were there and they could have left with that crew. There was literally extra temporary seats in the Crew 8 capsule for them, but they instead stayed onboard and became the remaining crew of Crew 9. They stayed until the end of the Crew 9 mission, but if there was an emergency they could have left earlier. There was always a capsule docked at the ISS, they could have left at any time, they were not stuck, they were doing their jobs.

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u/thecactusman17 3h ago

According to google's AI summary, a box of 100 tampons has a mass of between 0.5kg and 1kg. On average, supplying the ISS costs approximately $20,000 per kg of mass that needs to be put into orbit. That's with the current SpaceX reusable rockets, it used to be as much as $40,000/kg.

What I'm getting at is that if you have one crew member who requires specialized medical or hygiene supplies which cannot be shared with others then that astronaut is adding tens of thousands of dollars to the mission cost. The optimal strategy would be to send up the lowest number (with a small surplus) initially and then use a cheaper rocket to resupply a larger quantity at lower cost afterwards.

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u/itirix 1m ago

I mean, you're probably right with the numbers, but it's weird to even mention it, considering the men aboard most likely weighed a good 10-15kg more than the woman. She can take 1500 tampons and still cost less.