Wasn't the 100 tampons thing because they didn't know how weightlessness would affect bleeding?
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NASA is obsessed with redundancy, especially when the weight allowance lets them run away with it.
Add that to the fact that most of the engineers were men, and had literally no clue about how many tampons are needed for a normal woman on earth, and you end up with 100 being sent up for a two-week mission.
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Do people really use the term "hosting" when saying you're having someone over for the weekend? Because I'm getting sex worker vibes otherwise.
Sure. In my mind, hosting is either for larger get-together that takes organizing and preparation or if someone is traveling to the area to stay with you for a few days.
Hosting generally carries the weight of planning, organization and preparation that probably doesn’t go into just having someone over to hang out.
Depends how grown-up we're trying to feel
Been using that forever, even in the internet. Ever heard of LAN hosting?
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I don't hear it often, but being a host to people in your house is a normal thing.
I feel like we're missing an important piece of the puzzle: are they an alcoholic?
Anyone who drinks more than a few times a week in the US is likely an alcoholic. Put someone in the hospital and have them discuss their usage with nurses over a variety of days... you will get quotes like (1-2 per week and 1-2 per day out of the same person) then you will have a nurse ask what their weekend drinking looks like and they will say "around a six pack"
Just my observations, maybe I work in a depressed part of the state.
Fuck it's actually real. Nasa engineers really suggested 100 tampons for 6 days
https://www.poynter.org/tfcn/2021/did-nasa-send-a-woman-to-space-with-100-tampons/
What would be the normal amount, just out of interest?
I'd say 4 tampons a day for 7 days (so 28) would be plenty for most people. If you need 100, I'm concerned you would be dead of blood loss.
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Yup.
Quick math and being paranoid about redundancy:
A typical period lasts 3-5 days, with 7 being the high end. Round to 10.
Heavy flow might require a change every 4 hours, or 6 a day. 12 a day is in the realm of reality, albeit medically concerning.
Bring extra in case return has to be delayed for whatever reason.
They're extremely light and small, so a conservative weight allowance holds a lot of them. About 1g each, or 100 per 4oz.
So some quick math and padding your numbers to account for the unknown gets you 100, which considering they then asked isn't an unreasonable way to start.
I tried too long to figure out what this has to do with the Lemmy app.
*lemme
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