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[–] _danny@lemmy.world 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's also a weight thing. Tampons are pretty light, it's like one hundred per pound, so they probably said "we can budget x pounds for this" and didn't think much about the reasoning behind why they're sending several hundred tampons into space, but we're entirely focused on how.

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[–] jasondj@ttrpg.network 19 points 2 years ago

Less than that I think, and I’d suspect NASA would do load calculations in metric.

According to this reputable (first result on Google) High School Science Fair Project ^PDF, the average tampon is about 1g. I wouldn’t be surprised if they just budgeted 100g for it.

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[–] cynar@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

There's also the point that they don't go bad. It might be easier to send a load up now, that try and fit enough for each female astronaut into every flight.

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