Shaka, when the walls fell.

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.
- Tampons weigh nothing
  When you're dealing with the tyranny of rocketry, every gram matters.
  That said, I agree with your point. The mass and volume was well within acceptable mission parameters.
- Reagan probably got Nancy to shove them up his ass while performing her famous BJs.
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.
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.
- They did ask her. Sure, they could have asked how many instead, but it probably came in a 100 count well within any significant mass margins, so they just asked if 100 would be enough.
100/hour? That might be enough, but we really want wider safety margins, don't you think?

We don't serve people who awaken trolls here
Brutal
- Oh we got that in Finland btw
  (it was a marketing campaign, not a default size)

if he likes shit beer, get a 12 pack, good beer, 6 pack

I remember watching the X-files sometimes in the noughties and Mulder came up with a deduction; "it must've been two men...nobody drinks two six-packs alone" and I just cracked up.
12-pack was like a medium for the night, 24 a heavier. Plus bars usually. (Finn here.)
- Also, alcoholics are real. My dad used to go through a 24 a day just to maintain. The liquor on top of that was to actually feel intoxicated.
- 12 pack, sure... but 2 six-packs is different, ain't it?

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!
- Gooba Gabba, One of us!!
But have you searched for "communities containing tenforward" yet? :)
- ..I contribute content to them whilst drinking saurian brandy!
I agree, but after spending some time here, it's amazing how sensitive the people are about their fandoms on these more niche communities. Like guys, come on... it's just entertainment, you're allowed to have opinions, not everything should make you feel so stressed.
At least in larger sites like reddit people can have lighthearted spats and debates about silly things like media. Some of the folks here really need some sunlight.
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.
- 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..."
- this kind of negativity doesn't help Star Wars, or any fandom.

I just don't feel like a real man if I don't have my 125 daily lagers. I would surmise astronauts are the same. Maybe that's why nothing gets done up there,... they're being rationed !

You'd think that but due to reduced gravity in LOE it takes more beer to feel like a man. You can calculate the number of beers required by taking the number of beers at sea level times the distance from sea level in kilometers.
- Good ~~chuckle~~ chugle

Five Hundred Cigarettes

If he's my friend, I'd tell him to pick up the beer on the way over. Let him deal with it.

Yeah this is the actual solution. With that said, I would be fucking stoked if I showed up to a friends house and they showered me with 100 beers.

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

I mean, if you’re doing a full weekend of activities with friends those beers could be spaced out far enough that you’re never more than slightly buzzed (small cans, <5%ABV). But yeah, if it’s a regular thing, it’s not a great look.
- Yeah if you crack open the first cold one at noon when it gets hot while you're helping with some outdoors work and finish your last one at 3 AM talking shit with your friends, you probably never get drunk with those amounts. If you drink it all over 4 hours per evening, different story.
Really depends on whether we're talking 0.33l oder 0.5l.
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.
Assuming 12oz beers at 5% ABV, that you're a man at the global average weight of 180lbs, and have a healthy liver, if you paced yourself to 1 beer every 1.5 hours over the course of your 16 waking hours per day, your BAC would never exceed 0.02, you'd have 5-10 minutes between beers with a BAC of 0, and you'd drink about 12 beers in a day.
Most people would not be noticeably intoxicated by this and probably wouldn't experience any kind of hangover. They might wind up a bit dehydrated if that's the only thing they drink. It's also definitely not advisable to do that over any extended period of time.
- That explains why my perception is off, I weigh more like 140 :D
20 beers
There's no volume stated here... is 1 beer a pint, 0.5 liters,, small bottle/can of .33 liters, 2 liter bottle.
If it's the the small bottle it's not that much
- Where can you get beer by the 2 liter?
- Generally most consider a "beer" 355ml (12oz us) give or take.
If it's like a once a year event, is it really that bad? It's what I do for summer solstice. I don't easily get drunk though. Maybe 15 beers an evening to get me drunk, so 30-40 for a weekend if I were to drink only beer and nothing stronger.

It's quite simple really.

Are you planning on a sensible night with a few tinnies? 4.

Are you wanting to get wankered but still make sense by lunchtime tomorrow? 14.

Are you wanting to get utterly trashed and wake up the morning after the morning after? 24.

Are you part of a suicide cult? Yeah go with 104, sure whatever.

I think it depends on the strength of the beers too. Are we drinking lagers or quads?
- It does. I'm in the UK so 90% of the lagers or beers are between 4 and 5%.
  If you get on the Special Brew then going into double figures will probably ruin you the following day. That said, start hooning a couple of slabs of Carling C2 and you'll spend most of your time sobering up pissing in the bog/up the neighbours fence/in your mate's wardrobe in the middle of a dream.
She didn't say night, she said weekend. There's so many more variables. Maybe they're going to stay in and watch movies until 3AM, maybe they're going around town and not drinking a lot at home, maybe they get really drunk early on, found love, and stayed in for the rest of the weekend?
- It's almost as if we're weaving a whole narrative from a meme post.
  Either way, I hope they had a lovely time.
Depends on the ABV bigtime...

I don't need 100 beers but I would like 100 beers

Plus like what if the mission lasts for a long time. If I plan on spending a week at a friend's house but end up being there for much longer it won't hurt to have more beers.
If we're using NASA as a reference Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were in space for 286 days instead of a planned week long mission. I definitely would rather have 100 beers in that situation over 12 beers
- If we're using NASA as a reference Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were in space for 286 days instead of a planned week long mission.
  They did get resupplied with additional clothing and personal effects after a few weeks.
  Coincidentally, there is no laundry or shower on the international space station.
- NASA standard is 2.5x what you expect. So we're talking 30 beers for the weekend, just to be safe.
- I feel like informing women astronauts the current stock level of tampons on the ISS will come across as misogynistic, regardless of how factual and procedural the conveyance of information would be.
But I would also like to wake up in the morning.
- In that case just drink light beer, it typically has the alcohol content of seawater.

You start with 100 bottles of beer on the wall...

What happens if one were to fall...
- Well then someones got some cleaning to do.

27? 30. 37? 2.

37! my girlfriend sucked 37 dicks!
- Instructions unclear, your girlfriend now has (37! - 37) dicks remaining to suck.
- In a row?!
- Amazing, did you beat her? Did you win?

Get a 12 pack of beer and a medium sized nice liquor bottle as backup

- At 27, i would have put down 12 light beers before dinner while on a trip with no real responsibilities.

Edit: Why would people downvote this? I actually want to know if anyone has an idea

What in the ever-loving AI is wrong with that guys skin?
- The first generation terminators had rubber skin, and were pretty easy to spot.
- Too many beers?
- He looks like a second life character.
  I just remembered the Suite Life on deck second life episode or was that a fever dream?
we have found the qa tester.
I'll have -1 beers.
I'll have <r-*0> beers.
I'll have all beers.
- Then a player asks to use the toilet. The pub explodes
- I’ll have✌️beers.
I don't care why people "downvoted" your post before the edit but I did it because of the edit.
- Edgy. I like it.