• I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    They last 4-8 hours. Most women bleed for 3-7 days. So on the outer edge, you could need 42. I’ve never gone through more than a box of 24 in a cycle. But the US hadn’t put a menstruating person in space before, who knew if being in space would somehow unleash a geyser of mysterious lady fluids never before seen by man.

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      13 hours ago

      To condemn NASA a little bit further: NASA engineering also insisted that Sally Ride absolutely had to have a flight makeup kit. They went to the trouble to design one and make sure everything would work in zero-g. It went up and came back down completely unopened.

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      19 hours ago

      who knew if being in space would somehow unleash a geyser of mysterious lady fluids never before seen by man.

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