NASA is a very safety conscious organization. So they want to overestimate everything and include way more than they need. So when she said a couple per day you can round that to 5 for safety, then considering it’s a 6 day mission they want to include triple the amount of needed supplies which means 18 days worth. 18*5=90 which is pretty close to 100 so let’s round up again. Plus tampons are a useful first aid tool, especially in zero gravity. You shove some into an open wound and it’ll prevent blood from spilling all over the very sensitive equipment. Does a woman need 100 tampons for 6 days? Of course not, but she wasn’t going to spend a week in the mountains, she was going to space, so the safety precautions were much more stringent
i’m cis amab (though i have some unusual anatomy) and i’ve used about 10 tampons for myself for first aid in the last 20 years. if i had normal anatomy, i’d’ve probably used one for a nosebleed. but like, they are useful for more than menstruation.
also, i’m thinking about the crew that got stranded at the space station. say for some reason her trip lasted a fuckton longer than it was supposed to. she’d be glad she had 100.
Reposting one of my top lemmy comments:
NASA is a very safety conscious organization. So they want to overestimate everything and include way more than they need. So when she said a couple per day you can round that to 5 for safety, then considering it’s a 6 day mission they want to include triple the amount of needed supplies which means 18 days worth. 18*5=90 which is pretty close to 100 so let’s round up again. Plus tampons are a useful first aid tool, especially in zero gravity. You shove some into an open wound and it’ll prevent blood from spilling all over the very sensitive equipment. Does a woman need 100 tampons for 6 days? Of course not, but she wasn’t going to spend a week in the mountains, she was going to space, so the safety precautions were much more stringent
i’m cis amab (though i have some unusual anatomy) and i’ve used about 10 tampons for myself for first aid in the last 20 years. if i had normal anatomy, i’d’ve probably used one for a nosebleed. but like, they are useful for more than menstruation.
also, i’m thinking about the crew that got stranded at the space station. say for some reason her trip lasted a fuckton longer than it was supposed to. she’d be glad she had 100.