Proof That NASA Doesn’t Know Anything About Women - Marcia Belsky 

Bhahahahaha my God this is so funny hahaha

- in a case like that, one could just say they are for your sister who is in the C.i.A. : She just can’t come to the store because she is in ultra-deep undercover. As my mom used to say: “Why tell the truth, when a silly, funny lie is even better?” -

Yep. My husband is one!

This made me laugh as loud as the song did.

😂😂 keep him away from them so he doesn't tie the strings together! 😂

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Why should he be expected to know lmao

@@traffeconeHe isn’t expected to know(or at least that is what he thinks should happen). Which is what makes it funny.

Same here!! 😂😂😂😂😂

I’m actually in bed right now and thought to myself, “Let’s listen to the 100 tampons song again!” 🤣

Rectifying thought, If they were to get stranded, let's say 3 months to prep a rescue flight, maybe longer, that would be needed, and NASA always goes over what is needed.

Samee

This is the only logical solution!

You can make all your jewelry with those many, for all the crew😂

This is genius

This is the ONLY SOLUTION to this

😅🤣🤣🤣🤣😅🤣😅😅😂😂😂😂😭😭🤣🤣😂

I agree, but they should use the money to teach little boy rocket scientists about the mysteries of women's bodies. "Every purchase helps a NASA scientist learn a bit more about periods" written on the package.

It's been a year since you wrote this but you need to be reminded because this is genius

used preferably 🤣😅

Super yes!

She should have said yes to the 200. Free tampons, baby!

And?

@@meatisadelicacy But they were all unwrapped and tied up 😭 how could she keep them like that and where?

Dear “Literally Rocket Scientists”- You must have somehow failed grammar. It should be “how many”. SMH

you miss the best bit ...USELESS TAMPONS ..they sent USELESS tampons ..they tied the string together ....those tampons are literally unusable ....she will have to untie them and the string ..isn't necessarily safe ..and then if it breaks ...that is IF she can untie them ....they sent 100 unusable tampons. ..for 6 days...and they touched them ...meaning they are now unsanitary and will WILL give her a bacterial infection...

Maybe because every woman is different? And her periods can be different each time? And who knows what zero gravity will do.

@@frankbuck99 I mean yeah, and every human is different, but it would be irrational and nonsensical to send any person to space with triple the toilet paper any human needs. Put it this way, if a woman used 100 tampons in a week she would probably be anemic from iron loss, not great for space.

@@suchi4free she would be dead from blood loss

I seriously call this the Parable of 100 Tampons because it says so much about our society.

"Each woman is different" does not explain needing 100 tampons. 😂 You don't even need 33...

oh my god yes they were unwrapped

@@Dumpknoedel 😩

And this has to be done in a sterile environment!!! Lab coats and all! Must haves been an intern

@@Apearia 😂😂😂😂

I think that was a joke to be honest

you did math for this joke. respect.

Wait, six days is 144 hours--isn't that closer to one tampon every hour and a half (86 minutes)?

​​@@aquila121Sleep

I actually was charging my regular tampon once every hour and a half on my first two days this week.😢

​@@Zoë.eudaemoniai mean it's not THAT far off from what sally herself thought as she thought 50 would be needed and is the number they went with, so while not every 41 minutes the expectation from her was still 1 every hr and a half or so of her being awake

women? my wife showed it to me and we both jam it daily

I agree! It’s 3 years later and I’m still cracking up and have incorporated “these our are nations greatest minds. They are literally rocket scientists!” Into my daily life lol

Yep laughed quite loud at that one. Rewound, laughed again.

My favorite part!😂

Regarding your second sentence: It was not unsanitary because they did it in a clean room, but there is an even funnier story behind it. They unwrapped the 100 tampons to decrease weight :D

@@jonah3704 it is unsanitary because they will get touched before they enter her body. There's no way to not have that happen since they're all tied together and unwrapped with no applicator.

@@leahdavis9434 OH MY GOD THEY DIDNT EVEN HAVE APPLICATORS . I COULD NEVER.

@@maxx2413 apparently non applicator tampons are the norm outside of America.. 😞

@@rapa2894 Not really

Q: What do you call a fish with no eye? A: Fssshh.

The crossover we need!

Maybe a little more 😂

Yeah, females uses more than 1,44 tampons per hour Sure

Do you know what will happen to that woman on the flight? Why are you blaming scientists for actually giving her more if something happens?

Fun Fact.

Well, but that would be the case regardless. I mean, one woman needs more than one tampon, so...

I mean...I should hope so...

of course .. it sounds like you don't know how women work ... must be a NASA scientist .. if you think " a woman re-uses the ... "same one" for her entire life" ...

You all know what I mean

You may enjoy Tim Minchin x

Bo Burnham used to do a lot of song comedy on RU-vid. His first one, my whole family thinks I'm gay, is still his funniest, in my opinion.

To be fair, imagine accidentally spilling a box of 100 tampons in a spaceship and trying to catch them all 😂

@@marciamcdevitt964 can’t spill in space.

@@ankitaminhas4372of course you can. They don’t fall downwards, they just float off meanderingly in all directions, thus the hilarity of the image of trying to catch them all. Did you really not understand what I meant?? 😂

Does that mean they unwrapped them all beforehand?? ...How time-consuming and also unhygienic >

@@MagicalMusic15 good point.... 😳😂

Well, to be fair, they provided that because of societal beauty standards which they thought would apply to TV coverage from space - and it kinda has. A lot of female astronauts have gotten comments like "why is she so pale in space?" or "what's wrong with the ISS, she looks sick" and so on, because most of them don't (as you pointed out) wear a lot of makeup on the job.

That’s kinda sweet tho? Like I’m just picturing this scientist guy who probably has no social life being like “what can I do to help her?” I mean, his intentions were probably in the right place, little out of line, but in the right place.

@@hanygonzalez7476 🥰🥰

@@QemeH this suggests people are so used to women wearing makeup that they literally don’t realize what women naturally look like and assume they’re sick. 😑

@@inflorire Broadly speaking that is, in fact, the case - especially so for people "on TV". And you don't have to take my word for it, there are several interviews out there by female astronauts talking about how they recieved exactly those kind of comments ("She so pale!" - "Is she okay?" - "What's wrong with the lighting on the ISS?" etc.) whenever they'd do a TV appearance from space. And it should be pointed out that women perpetrate this as well as men. A woman from the group of selected candidates for the first female astronaut once said in an interview about the question from NASA weather the group would need makeup: _There were loud guffaws by a few of the women as though that was ridiculous because they never wore makeup. However, there was one fair blonde who pointed out that the pictures taken of us in space would follow us for the rest of our lives, and she-for one-didn’t want to disappear into the background. As a compromise, the equipment engineers worked with us to put together a makeup kit that could be requested if we wanted to take it on our flight. Of note, several of the women who had laughed at the thought decided to take it along_

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oH GOD

Also it was years years ago before diva cup Even if there wasn't zero gravity

Menstrual cups were invented before Sally Ride. But that zero gravity nullifies the argument anyway... lol

I really suck at physics. What would zero gravity influence in the situation?

lmao why i’m here rn

I mean, it sounds like someone unwrapped them all and tied them together. I'll skip the toxic shock syndrome, thanks. ☠️

@@lilyl8002 Funnier than that! They were unwrapped, tied together and re-sealed into a single pack in a clean room. The image of some poor intern in a full protective suit and gloves unpackaging 100 tampons, tying them together by hand and then sealing them into a new container is the most funny thing about all this - at least to me.

Back to using actual rags because who could afford that? 😅

I mean. If a lady stands up, I'm not going to fucking ask her, "Oh, is the reason you got up because you are changing your tampon now? What about when you got up 20 minutes ago? I'm trying to count." So I'd have no idea, without asking.

I felt like that but I had super-heinous fibroids. I could go through a box of Kotex Security in like a day and a half. My hysterectomy paid for itself.

Sort of. The story comes from NASA's oral history project, in which Sally Ride was telling stories about NASA's difficulty adjusting to the presence of female astronauts. As she was preparing for her trip to space, they asked her if 100 tampons was the correct number for a one week trip. Part of that is, obviously, NASA's habitual over preparedness, but it's also a signifier of a bunch of dudes sitting in a room trying to figure out how women's bodies work. They didn't actually send that many tampons, though. The story is embellished for comedic and, I assume, lyrical reasons.

Part of the joke is that it was just a room full of dudes making the decision related to tampons. And, as a room full of dudes will do, they didn't bother to ask someone who actually KNEW what they needed because why on earth would you do that?

Oh, and I'm going to write this down in case I need to know later. Thanks.

cptnsummershoe and it doesn’t explain why they wouldn’t ask the person who’d use/want them for input. I mean, good lord, at least give her a choice to take the make/model that she prefers in the appropriate quantity rather than making executive decision. Part of the joke is clearly the math, but not including her in the decision is part of the joke, too.

Don't forget absorbancy ratio, the rate at which a tampon fills depending on the woman's flow. So ask her, cause if you send 52 lite tampons into space with her if she's got a heavy flow, you're going to run out.

@@btgrant Make and model. I love that!!!

You attract them with any female comedians or gamers. Then attack.

I eat upset incel comments and I’m alllll full. 😋

But how could they have known, they're scientists

@@Tushinho How is that an argument? You can be a scientist AND know basic things about women. I am a women and know basic things about men.

@@spleens6885 A basic thing about women is that you guys menstruate around once a month. How are we supposed to know exactly how many tampons you're gonna need. Aren't all women different when it comes to that? Why not be better safe than sorry?

@@aahillakhani399 You may not know the exact amount, but 100 is definitely overboard.

@@spleens6885 What’s the problem with going overboard? 100 tampons is what?

Like all thr world have to spin around them, you know))

100 TAMPOOOOOOOOOOOONS

To prevent loss in zero gravity presumably. I see where they were going, but yeah no

So that there wouldn’t be 100 tampons flying around. Also, tampons aren’t sterile to begin with.

I fear that that idea is still vague since you referred to women as females, truly a mysterious creature xD

Engineers asked Ride, "Is 100 the right number?" She would be in space for a week. "That would NOT be the right number," she told them.🤣🤣

Lol no, they literally were so ignorant they asked Sally Ride not only if 100 tampons would be adequate but also whether she needed make-up...

With the no gravity thing id rather not tho hahah

Where is there a more full version? This is longer than the one I first heard.

You gotta figure at least some were married but STILL had no clue

Man if someone’s losing enough blood in 6 days to fill up 100 tampons maybe they shouldn’t be going to space XD

Probably every single day. Even if there aren't as many female rocket scientists, they still exist you know and there are definitely some working at NASA today

I mean, Sally herself was also a rocket scientist.....and a woman....

They probably have a mother?

Good thing this was about the first US woman that we sent to space...which was said at the beginning of the video

They were also smart enough to send up pencils instead of pens haha she’s talking specifically NASA.

@@jackieloranger499 the Fisher Space Pen is a fun little gadget. I agree, pencils are cheaper, easier, for pinkos.

HAHAHA! If men had a goddamn catch-all phrase, it'd be 'what about me? :('

@@ckpemac5268 lol second in line would be, “but not all men.”

Too much. She doesn’t need to be shouted at about tampons!

Yeah but maybe not unpackaged and tied together by the string lol 😂

A bit

When i used tampons id go through 3/4 a day. Even if she is in her period for those 6 days, id say take 30 to be safe, not a 100

Assuming you don't have any other medical factors effecting that then that's about twice as much as one would need

Yeah 30 but they do safety factors by 2’s I think in case something goes wrong and they’re up there for longer than anticipated, their food and water can last months. So 30 then their additions for safety is like 60-80 tampons.

Okay why are we overlooking the fact that they opened them and tied them together? 100 tampons or 30 tampons... They opened a sterile product and tied them by the strings??? Fecking mental

Then why tie them together

They. Tied. Them. Together. This is a bit like giving a man 100 condoms, unwrapped and on a skewer "just to be safe". If they had asked, she would have told them that 60 was overkill and please keep them sanitized because you don't wanna make a worse-case scenario even worse by giving her a vaginal infection.