NASA, with the tampons.
NASA once asked astronaut Sally Ride if 100 tampons would be enough for her week-long mission in space, but she later clarified that this number was excessive. While the engineers were concerned about potential needs, Ride humorously noted that a much smaller amount would suffice.
Tbh, this is not quite as dumb as it sounds. Tampons weigh nothing and if there’s no way to resupply, it’s not quite as dumb to take more than you need. What if, for example, there’s a series defect on these things and a large portion of them are defective?
In fact, when they asked her said it’s excessive, to which they told her they wanted to be on the safe side, so she said to cut it in half and bring 50pcs (which is still excessive for most periods, but on the safe side).
In fact, in the same mission they also brought jelly beans, which were entirely irrelevant to the mission, because Reagan insisted on his favourite snack to go to orbit. They were likely heavier than 100 tampons and also much less necessary up there.
I get the impression they were also preparing for a potential freak discovery where it turns out zero G has an extreme effect on the menstrual cycle, and they suddenly need a lot of them.
If you have a sample size of 0 and a backup plan of “crash and burn”, it does make sense to be extra careful with the preparation.
I prefer my backup plans to include “halt and catch fire”
“halt” might be difficult in orbit.
Still a pretty dumb approach by the NASA guys. Didn’t it occur to them to ask a woman - any woman - before coming up with the initial estimate? Like “hey Sally, how many tampons do you normally need during your period? OK we’ll triple that for a safety margin.” There. Done.
On NASA defence is not the first time that due problems with vehicles an astronaut have to stay up there for much much much longer than their planed stance.
At the end I think the astronaut said that 50 would be enough. So the NASA estimate wasn’t really that far off. As it’s totally normal for a woman to use half or double the tampons than other woman during period.
But it is a funny story indeed.
One of my favorite things about Lemmy ~ Star Trek references can occur anywhere, at any given moment.
I have a personal metric system for rating social networking platforms based on the percentage of Trekkies/Trekkers.
One of us! One of us!
I just wish I saw more Star Wars references but not that bootleg Disney crap, I like my star wars like I like my bands in the EU.
this kind of negativity doesn’t help Star Wars, or any fandom.
Yeah I’ve spoken to enough young people who watched the prequels first that I no longer begrudge them their nostalgia.
I just don’t share it, and that’s ok. I’d rather define myself by what I enjoy than what I turn my nose up at.
Speaking of, have you heard the good word of Andor?? It’s the best thing to happen to Star Wars since greebles!!!
As a purist, we can agree that the only real series was TNG, this was the cornerstone, built on the hallowed but kind of silly ground made by the original series, but followed by DS9 when we grew up a little, and we can kinda accept Voyager was a thing that happened somewhere in the distance but we don’t get too close.
There was nothing else. The franchise ended and we all moved on, happy for the good run. “ALL GOOD THINGS…”
wtf is a Star Trek “purist” and why should anyone care about your arbitrary opinion?
why should anyone care about your arbitrary opinion
By this metric, what’s the point of even browsing any forums or websites at all? Everything is someone’s arbitrary opinion, if it makes you feel bad to read something you disagree with, you can’t fix that outside of yourself.
I love that your response to what a “star trek purist” is is a defense of bs opinions on the internet
My actual response to someone so cynical and unable to relax and banter about hobbies and fandoms is to block them. Bye.
It probably means different things for different people, because like every other fandom, it’s kinda arbitrary.
I was kind of purist. I started with TOS, but TNG, DS9, and VOY were right then too. Didn’t care as much for Voyager, but it was ok. Skipped Enterprise completely. I have TAS but haven’t watched it. Actively disliked the Kelvin movies. I’ve missed all the new stuff because I don’t stream, except Lower Decks, which I find delightful. I’m gonna pick up Picard and SNW soon.
I guess you missed the part where he quoted the exact part of your comment that he was replying to. Or do you just want to ignore that part so you don’t have to defend it?
you mean like they ignored the part of me asking what a “star trek purist” is? maybe you can shed some light on that.
I’m not sure whether that’s a hot take, and I know there are different levels of tolerance, but I think you might have a problem if you drink 20 beers in 2-3 days (assuming 4-6% alcohol). Or at least you will probably have, starting day 2 :D
There is a big difference if it’s a periodic activity or a one time party thing. If it’s a one time one, it’s not a big deal, apart from heavy hangover afterwards.
You can get permament drunk guy syndrome/brain damage (people who look drunk even when sober) from consuming too much in a short period (chugging like crazy), so that one party can potentially (EDIT: Pay attention to this word and stop blowing things out of proportion lemmy! Potential does not mean always, it means there is a chance involved) fuck you up more than periodical drinking. I think it was called alcoholic cerebellar degeneration. This is why I refuse to touch strong drinks like vodka and whenever I drink beer, I take a sip once per minute or two, not chug the can in 5 minutes, and never drink again in the next few days.
Consume your drugs responsibly, people.
You can get permament drunk guy syndrome/brain damage (people who look drunk even when sober) from consuming too much in a short period (chugging like crazy),
I have never heard of this in over half a century of drinking. Link or you made it up. Difficulty: no links to Mormon/religious nutcase made up shit.
I literally gave you the name for it, just put it on PubMed
I literally just entered your search terms and literally clicked search and, literally, I mean it, not figuratively, literally it responded:
No results were found. Your search was processed without automatic term mapping because it retrieved zero results.
I literally just copy/pasted that response here because I literally knew you are making shit up, you lying propagandist.
Lying. Propagandist. Go back to handing out Chick tracts to people who toss them in the recycling bin.
Take your pills
In case you aren’t a troll or schizo, you can start here: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8391842/
No, I’ve seen your complete lies and lack of evidence. Go back to rocking by yourself, I ain’t biting no more.
Alcoholic cerebellar degeneration is caused by chronic consumption.
If you aren’t alcoholic already, and unless you have some very specific condition, the body will start getting rid of alcohol way quicker than you will be consuming it, through any means necessary.
Drinking a lot is still dangerous, but mostly due to drunken behaviour.
You’re indeed right that drugs should be consumed responsibly, and alcohol is poison, but it’s also not that dangerous, unless it’s an addiction.the body will start getting rid of alcohol way quicker than you will be consuming it, through any means necessary.
This shit is getting upvoted while I’m getting downvoted? Tell this to any medical professional and they will look at you the same way I look at flat earthers. Alcohol metabolism is capped, while your ability to consume it isn’t nearly as capped as your body’s ability to deal with it. That “by any means necessary” makes it far worse. Those who know, will know.
Another side note - tolerance /= faster metabolism.
Chug on few vodkas per hour and report back to me about your myth (or should I say, forward your autopsy report to me?)
My man, if you think I didn’t do my fair share of stupid drinking, you’re severely underestimating what college does to a young man.
Things that I did and not particularly proud of:- drinking a standart 0.5 liter bottle of vodka in one gulp (the trick is to swirl it so it does a little whirlwind, this way it creates laminal flow)
- drinking 80% proof alcohol like it was regular vodka
- drinking so much beer in one sitting, it was sloshing inside me like I was a baloon.
- much much more.
Was it not smart? Yeah, totally. Was it fun? If you account for all the vomiting and hangovers and states of total drunkinnes, overal no, it wasn’t fun, don’t recommend. Did it give me any permanent damage including death? Nope, I was lucky enough to be smart enough to not make it an addiction, and because of that I am alive and as healthy as I could be at my age.
Humans themselves typically don’t feel their cerebellum shrinking or damaging. Others, who know you well, notice it way before you.
- You are not much fun. 2. You have never been to a good party. 3. Humanity owes its existence to alcohol. Beer and wine were the only safe drinks before water purification.
Alcohol also creates reproduction.
You also will vomit when too much alcohol is consumed. Even if you are passed out.
Ask me how much alcohol and different drugs, including rarely known ones like 25l-nbome I’ve used. Medical field and drugs have always fascinated me, hence my excessive reading on it and the potential dangers associated with them. What I said isn’t also some hard-coded event that will most definitely happen, it’s actually mostly down to genetics where some will deal with said substances better than others. Look up super-hangover gene (forgot what was it called ironically)
You all seem to be ignoring the “potentially” word from my original comment.
Potentially is doing too much heavy lifting. Everything can Potentially kill you. Excess water consumption kills you better than alcohol
Eating beef could Potentially kill you with brain parasites. Lettuce coils Potentially kill you with e coli.
