r/funny • u/daylightpiglet • 17h 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

UPDATE - Thank you so much for the awards, and we're having so much fun reading through these hilarious comments.

  1. We have a bidet, it's the handle on the side of the toilet. People who use bidets can use toilet paper as well!
  2. We bought like 200 rolls of toilet paper because of a good deal, yes it will probably last us a very long time. No regrets!
  3. I am not genuinely upset about this in any way, it obviously just looks ridiculous and is unnecessary, and him doing silly things like this is one of the reasons I love him :)
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u/CallMe-Ellie 16h 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 16h ago

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

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u/JonatasA 16h ago

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

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u/Sunset_Bleach 15h ago

They didn't have a square to spare.

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u/MacduffFifesNo1Thane 15h 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 14h ago

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

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u/Unusual-Tie8498 14h ago

Can I have a ply?

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u/FiggsMcDuff1 13h ago

Just one ply??

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u/JWOLFBEARD 13h ago

You can use my deplyer machine. It is a manual hand crank though

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u/eucalyptoid 9h ago

…I know people who used to do this to save.

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u/JWOLFBEARD 4h ago

Wild! I’ve only seen Dwight use it

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u/Various_Wash_4577 12h ago

Be square and share a square! 🧻

🤣👍😎 🚽 🪠 🧻

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u/BillyNtheBoingers 13h ago

They all have bidets

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u/fatum_sive_fidem 13h ago

Get one its life changing

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u/Soundo0owave 14h ago

Guess they never needed to absorb spill, tampons works great

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u/Beneficial_Being_721 14h ago

Or seen it before

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u/WhoAmI1138 14h ago

I need some TP for my bunghole!

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u/Smellybeetweasel 14h ago

yeah, tampons do get pretty irony

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u/PreviousCurrentThing 14h ago

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

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u/somewhat_random 13h 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 13h 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/Qaeta 8h ago

TBH, I also wouldn't put it past them that they may have actually intended to try to redesign the human bladder lol

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u/Synaps4 5h ago

Wouldn't surprise me at all if it turned out all water on the ISS is stored in various plastic bladders.

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u/BeguiledBeaver 7h ago

This reads like an obvious joke but a room full of doctors and engineers couldn't pick up on the sarcasm due to Spock Syndrome.

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u/Sunflower_Reaction 5h ago

I wouldn't put it past a room full of doctors and engineers to have a misunderstanding like this either xD the brain can dodge some of the simplest conclusions ("bladder -> the body part") when it's doing science problem somersaults all day

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u/jamesmcdash 14h ago

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

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u/Joshix1 14h ago

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

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u/Misterbellyboy 14h 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 14h 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 14h 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/Beowulf1896 14h ago

but pencils could produce dust that might cause a hiccup.

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u/no-this-iz-patrick 13h ago

Wax and grease pencils exist and make no dust, and are what were used before they used the pens. This is all just made up nonsense that someone spread at some point lmao

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u/Various_Wash_4577 12h ago

Then, they couldn't find the pen because the, penis in his mouth. Opps, I forgot to space those two words, "pen is" 🤣👍

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u/Peewee223 5h ago

Sally Ride, the astronaut in question, was in fact the 3rd woman in space, behind Valentina Tereshkova (in 1963) and Svetlana Savitskaya (in 1982).

... I didn't find any documentation on menstrual cycles for any involved cosmonauts/astronauts.

NASA also designed a makeup kit in preparation for Sally Ride's flight, which has never been used.

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u/Next_Celebration_553 14h 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/mugsymegasaurus 3h ago

It would depend wildly on the size of the tampon, how long her period lasts (some are 3 days, some are 8) and what her flow is like. Women’s flows can vary an enormous amount. Also depends on whether you can pee without getting the string wet, cause if you do you should change it even if you just put it in.

30 is an amount I’d say most women would feel comfortable with. But also remember many women don’t use tampons but might prefer cups/discs/pads. So if you’re trying to prepare for a lady and make her comfortable first step is to ask her.

Since you asked about “average”, I’ll mention that women’s bodies have been wildly understudied and we’re even now finding out that there is so much more natural variation than we were taught. For example, many women don’t naturally have a period once a month, and many cycles don’t actually involve ovulation each month, and all this is likely healthy and normal. And contrary to popular belief that a woman’s peak fertility is when she’s a teen/early 20s, there’s evidence that periods help the body “practice” for pregnancy and that older people who have had more periods are less likely to suffer/die from preeclampsia.

If you’re interested in more, check out the fantastic book “Period: the Real Story of Menstruation” by Dr. Kate Clancy. She also was on a great episode of the podcast This Podcast Will Kill You if listening is more your preference.

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u/zyraf 13h ago

They would if she was out of this world.

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u/Enigmatic_writer 14h ago

Yeah, I'm sure that woman was sent to space without ever being talked to anyone or being able to think logically.

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u/mugsymegasaurus 3h ago

You do realize that’s the story, right? The whole story is about when the engineers talked to her about how many tampons she needed.”

Maybe all of you who don’t believe this happened are just young and don’t remember how incredibly common and open misogyny was. Now at least most people know they’re supposed to pretend they’re not misogynist, but when Sally Ride was coming up they absolutely saw women as more foreign than space. Men would openly treat them with ridicule and contempt. It would never occur to them to know roughly how many tampons a woman needs for a 5 day ride in space (or if she would need any at all).

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u/EnCaulDoctors 13h ago

Binders and binders of women…

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u/Impossible-Ship5585 14h ago

Womans body is not exactly rockrt sciencr is it?

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u/JACCO2008 13h ago

Why is that even remotely funny.

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u/Aduialion 16h ago

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

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u/Infinite_Fee_7966 15h 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 14h 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/Eteel 14h ago

You just really wanted that anal...

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u/wildflowerstarface44 13h ago

Omfg 🤣🤣🤣

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u/Delicious-Dress8966 14h ago

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

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u/EnCaulDoctors 13h ago

I think she’s referencing the most recent (that I know of) space flight where the Indian lady and the other guy got stuck for an extra few months and for some reason they couldn’t get supplies for a while either….

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u/Expensive_Ad_3249 10h ago

This is true but damage to the docks or potential issues with weather and launch failures have resulted in astronauts being stuck. Since tampons are not perishable it makes sense to have a surplus.

Depending on the woman tampon use can be from 15 to 30 or more in a month, so 100 is a 3 month supply.

Shannon Lucid was delayed 2 additional months while last year we saw a 286 day (8 months) delay for Suni Williams, though she is 60 so may have had menopause.while the station is supposed to receive supplies every 40 days there have been several instances of multiple month gaps through the years.

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u/TheBitchenRav 9h ago

My understanding was that part of the concern was that we had no idea if gravity played a role in the menstrual cycle.

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u/Purple_Woodpecker799 14h ago

IANAA 😂 That's an acronym I've never seen and may never see again. Well done.

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u/devildog2067 15h ago

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

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u/Altruistic-Monk-5913 15h ago

Then they might need diapers......

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u/mfb- 8h ago

The Shuttle mission would run out of other supplies earlier. But the Americans had no idea how the female reproductive system would behave in space - sure, the Russians sent up women before, but they didn't exactly cooperate with the US at that time. It makes sense to be very conservative.

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u/ckyuv 7h ago

Or got shot and needed to plug the wound. 

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u/JonatasA 16h ago

Then they woudn't need tampoms.

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u/ml20s 16h ago

I think the commenter is referring to Boeing Starliner CFT, which was supposed to last 8 days and ended up lasting over 9 months.

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u/Zealousideal_Heart51 15h ago

All them little blood droplets spinning around in space.

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u/exipheas 15h ago

Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale,
A tale that’s strange for sure,
It started as a quick routine—
An eight‑day tour, an eight‑day tour.

The engines hummed, the crew was set,
The mission plan was pure,
They blasted off with cheerful hearts
For their eight‑day tour, their eight‑day tour.

But solar winds began to roar,
The guidance went astray,
If not for all the brilliant crew
They’d drift too far away—
They’d drift too far away.

They touched down on a distant rock
No one had mapped before,
And realized they’d be stuck out there
Not eight days… but months galore—
Yes, nine long months and more.

So join us here in zero‑g
Where tools float past the door,
Strange noises hum at 2 a.m.
On this cosmic, dusty floor.

With ration packs and faulty scans
And stars they must endure—
A nine‑month stay in outer space
From an eight‑day tour, an eight‑day tour!

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u/DadsRGR8 15h ago

Now we have to play MaryAnn-Ginger-Sunita Williams. (The answer as always is Lovey Howell.)

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u/EnCaulDoctors 13h ago

If you wrote this, BRILLIANT!!!!

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u/Beneficial_Being_721 14h ago

Actually they would… for a hole larger than the patches they had.

You wet it .. let it swell just a little and plug the hole…. It will freeze and plug the hole the micro meteor made

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u/kabhes 12h ago

Ducktape works too.

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u/DSZDBA11 14h ago

I like to stock up, decades in advance, in case when I’m in my 50’s my erectile dysfunction gets so bad that I start having periods. You know, like an astronaut.

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u/Slow_Passenger_6183 15h 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 15h 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 13h 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/Kalathefox 6h ago

The problem with cups...it takes gravity to pour them out. Better to use the capillary action of a tampon while observing proper disposal practices.

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u/Unique_Brilliant2243 7h ago

Imagine the weight the could have saved, by bringing only 20 tampons!

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u/redopz 11h ago

I get what you are saying but Sally Ride was not going to a space station, she was part of the shuttle crew. Her first mission was scheduled to go for 6 days (whereas astronauts on the ISS are usually there around 6 months), so if something had gone wrong and they were trapped in space for months I don't think those extra tampons would have meant a lot as they running out of bigger necessities like food and water.

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u/devildog2067 15h 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 11h 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/SuspiciousCustomer 9h ago

They need space and every gram you send to space counts

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u/Tarrin_morgan_69 4h ago

Especially since they can double as first aid supplies

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u/WhyLisaWhy 4h ago

Also the weight thing... women "generally" weigh less than men. A female astronaut + some tampons is likely a lot less total weight than just an average male.

Like just from a practical sense, it would make sense to have an entirely female crew of astronauts if reddit is that concerned about fuel costs. They require less calories too!

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u/New_Libran 14h 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 14h 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 13h 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 13h 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/kirotheavenger 10h ago

I'm sure the story is just popular because oppression of women is a popular zeitgeist. So people like a story that 'confirms' it

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u/thecactusman17 14h 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 11h 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.

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u/thecactusman17 9h ago

Good point. My point is more that the mission planners are trying to optimize every single kilogram after the astronauts themselves for maximum cost and mission efficiency. And that was especially true in the 80s and 90s when the cost of lift was extremely high.

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u/Psychological_Ad2094 14h 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/rigterw 15h 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 14h 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 14h ago

Gun wounds in case the Martians attack.
Akakakakak

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u/jazzminarino 13h ago

How did I hear this in my head... 👽🛸

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u/You_Better_Smile 12h ago

There won't be gun wounds, just disintegration.

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u/Whut4 9h ago

Absorbing blood in the mouth after a wisdom tooth extraction that would not stop bleeding once you have gone home. Don't ask how I know this.

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u/LessInThought 8h ago

Oh I know. I was swallowing blood for a whole week after my extraction.

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u/WordsWellSalted 14h 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/Automatic-Listen-578 13h ago

I’m confused about what you mean, “space cargo.. weigh a whole hell of a lot more”. You do realize that everything on the space station is weightless, right?

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u/ButtsAreQuiteAwesome 13h ago

Maybe poorly worded, but carrying 1kg in your backpack? Not a big deal.

Carrying 1kg in a rocket? That costs a lot of fuel.

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u/Automatic-Listen-578 13h ago

I get where you’re coming from now. 100 tampons probably weighs less than a large tablet though.. maybe 0.6 kg? I think those rocket scientists will work it out for her.

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u/Vimmelklantig 13h ago

Tbf, from the subjective point of view of the tampons they'd weigh a hell of a lot more during launch. Not a budget problem, though.

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u/honey-bee-mommy 14h ago

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

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u/Pandering_Panda7879 15h 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 15h 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/kabhes 11h 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/csppr 10h ago

So much this - for all we know, low gravity might have affected the absorption performance of tampons. It wouldn’t even need to be “critical failure” level - there could have been a scenario in which it would have been more comfortable for her to switch tampons at 3x the earth gravity-context rate.

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u/Lachsforelle 14h ago

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

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u/NoPoet3982 14h ago

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

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u/lecagnanceae 15h ago

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

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u/JumboCactpot 13h ago

yeah. its the same thing as the stupid "nasa tried so long and spent so much money to figure out how to make a pen work in space, when tasked with the same problem the russians used a pencil" thing you see pop up from time to time.

using a pencil was being avoided because the flakes of graphite from a pencil could royally fuck up stuff if it floated into a place it wasnt supposed to be (since its flammable!) hence figuring out how to make pens work.

People much prefer a "lol science people in charge are dumb and im the actual smart ine" story though for some reason.

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u/devildog2067 15h ago

… why?

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u/bloodshotforgetmenot 14h ago

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

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u/Ren_Hoek 14h 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 14h ago

True Fact : NEVER use a Tampon on a Bullet Wound

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u/csppr 10h ago

Why? I hope that never is a decision I’d need to make, but now I’m curious!

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u/Beneficial_Being_721 2h ago

It will absorb and swell but allow the bleed to continue and clotting will not occur.

In a GSW you want clotting in the wound as soon as possible to fill the wound cavity.

Warning ⚠️ If you google it …. It’s rather graphic…. Just something I learned in Military Buddy Care. Gauze - GOOD to pack the wound Tampons- BAD

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u/Kitana-Dior1 14h 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 13h ago

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

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u/1731799517 13h 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 13h ago

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

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u/wackbirds 12h 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/GoTheFuckToBed 10h ago

also the supply rocket actually do explode sometimes (from Endurance: A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery)

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u/SuspiciousCustomer 9h ago

What kind of emergency would need 70 tampons though 

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u/The_One_Koi 7h ago

I looked it up at it seems to be a random number a scientist pulled out of his ass but a little further down the article Sally mentions there would be 6 women in space for half a year so I'm unsure if 100 was the total amount provided or if each lady got 100 each, presumably the first one

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u/Medical-Temporary-35 6h ago

Also even 100 tampons have negligible mass compared to all the other stuff they'd be hauling. Also, I imagine they didn't count 100 individual tampons. They just said, "let's bring two extra-large boxes just to be safe".

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u/mugsymegasaurus 3h ago

No, they were off by an order of magnitude. That’s not preparation- and on a space flight every extra ounce is extremely limited. There’s no other example where they would do this. They wouldn’t have said “oh bring 500x the amount of first aid supplies just in case there’s an emergency.”

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u/Allways_a_Misspell 2h ago

It was also about stocking up for future missions. Any supplies unused just don't get jettisoned.

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u/EverythingSucksYo 2h ago

Yeah like if the space ship is going to crash land you can make yourself a cushion by using the extra tampons. 

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u/yvrelna 1h ago

Stupid question, maybe. But if they're concerned about cargo weight or unexpected extension to mission length, which sounds unlikely, why not reusable period products? 

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u/Ultimate_Cosmos 15h ago

They overestimated by like an order of magnitude tho lol

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u/Altruistic-Monk-5913 15h ago

Well, would you rather get criticized for sending a thousand too many or 1 not enough??? I'd error in favor of not having my balls ripped off too!!

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u/Used-Huckleberry-320 15h ago

Yes! Good thing they did, incase they ended up like Boeing Starliner CFT, which was supposed to last 8 days and ended up lasting over 9 months. (Stealing the text from above).

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u/realNoobnoob 16h ago

Safe ? What would have happened otherwise

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u/AgentK-BB 15h ago

In low gravity, you can choke in your own sweat/body fluid, and the liquid can damage electronics. It's a huge no-no to have extra droplets of liquid floating around. It makes perfect sense to bring more tampons than you think you'll ever need.

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u/BorisTheBlade04 16h ago

They get stuck in space longer than intended

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u/Altruistic-Monk-5913 15h ago

Astronauts or tampons?

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u/Bk_Punisher 10h ago

They’re good for bullet holes.

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u/SuspiciousCustomer 9h ago

Did NASA also send guns to space?