Temba, his arms wide

I stole this from a memes instance for you guys.

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The joke is pretty funny but, in fairness, we didn't know what would happen to women up in space.
As far as the team knew, the bladder would get a little loose for men but menstruation for women could mean them having a high enough flow to result in blood loss and get into every device on board. No long term zero gravity experiment had been performed up to that point with women and the engineers wanted to be extra sure that it didn't end up in serious injury.
Or I could be pulling this out of my ass, who knows?
- 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
- Better to be over prepared rather than unprepared. NASA engineers did not play the fuck around find out game.
  
  Idk, that's sounding a lot like they were just exceptionally prepared to find out.
The reference, for those who don't get it
- If you use order-of-magnitude rounding, 100 is the right number, depending on which two weeks you pick.
  
  Plus with it being NASA you kinda have to grossly overestimate things like this. If they plan on being in space for 14 days you don't necessarily limit it to the average person's 14 days worth of health items. Anything could go wrong
- The Center of Science and Industry (COSI) in Colombus OH has a little mock-up of the space station you can walk through that shows all the different tools and stations and whatnot, and there's a hygeine station that has a familiar reference . I audibly giggled when I saw it.
- Cut them some slack, they're engineers. They are not used to temporarily plug up leaky systems, but to fix them.
  And beyond that, they are engineers. What do they know about women?
  
  Cut them some slack, they’re engineers... And beyond that, they are engineers
  Excellent point
  What do they know about women?
this is brilliant, I'm slain

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