It is satisfying to see this rational and calculated explanation of the potential for a perpetually flowing red river in zero gravity.
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The Boeing Starliner debacle comes to mind.
Exactly! You don't need supplies for a week, you need supplies until you make it home. Sometimes your week turns into several months.
To be fair, I doubt the Space Shuttle could have sustained astronauts in orbit for 286 days in any case, for reasons entirely unrelated to tampons. At least not without docking to the ISS, anyway, which STS-7 didn't do (in part because it didn't exist yet).
There's an idea.
Maybe they actually gave her a reasonable amount of tampons for the maximum amount of time she could expect to survive in a disaster.
Lol it's almost like you can't win with certain people. To many just in case. "You don't know anything about woman". Just enough. "You cheap bastards don't care about woman". Too few. "Both cheap and ignorant". Not even worth trying anymore.
Fuckin Carl
But the calculation is so real...
Let's say, they always send twice the amount in different packages, in case anything goes wrong, then the 50 makes absolutely sense. Maybe the string tears off easier when inserting one in space or she has a weird routine where one always goes to the bin immediately, well or the space vulcano thing. 😂