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 love that your response to what a "star trek purist" is is a defense of bs opinions on the internet

27? 30. 37? 2.

Do you realize how much "too much" is in your scenario?

Like alcohol poisoning dead level. Can't walk. Can't stay awake. Can't breathe. Can't do anything.

I prefer my backup plans to include "halt and catch fire"

I guess you missed the part where he quoted the exact part of your comment that he was replying to. Or do you just want to ignore that part so you don’t have to defend it?

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),

I have never heard of this in over half a century of drinking. Link or you made it up. Difficulty: no links to Mormon/religious nutcase made up shit.

Procurement for business/government/military (including and especially NASA), is very different than what you would see on a shelf at your local drug store.

The drug store can't buy a single box of tampons. They have to get an entire case of boxes of tampons. If each box is say, 20 tampons, and there's more than 5 of those per case, then they're buying at least 100 tampons so they can get a single box of them.

There's a lot of alternatives they could have looked into, like neighboring government institutions which may already stock them, asking them to supply a smaller quantity than they would have needed to order, or ordering outside of their typical channels and sending the intern down the road to buy a box from the nearest pharmacy... Those things wouldn't really get accounted for in their budgeting though... So they would prefer to order through their normal distribution.

It's a funny comment to make to Ride, "is 100 enough?" And I'm sure everyone had a good chuckle.

Regardless they probably didn't see another good option for ordering other than to just buy a case of them and figure out the rest later.

Alcoholic cerebellar degeneration is caused by chronic consumption.
If you aren't alcoholic already, and unless you have some very specific condition, the body will start getting rid of alcohol way quicker than you will be consuming it, through any means necessary.
Drinking a lot is still dangerous, but mostly due to drunken behaviour.
You're indeed right that drugs should be consumed responsibly, and alcohol is poison, but it's also not that dangerous, unless it's an addiction.

The vacuum is only ≈3K, or -270.15° C, but a vacuum is not particularly receptive to heat dispersal.

This is true for all of the black parts of the sky.

It is not true for that big yellow ball that shines on the space station half of the time. That big yellow ball is as bright and hot as a hot desert day on the surface. Daylight can raise the vacuum temp up to +250 or +300 C. And it also means that the night time temps don't cool down all the way to 3K.

So the ISS is continuously exposed to these thermal cycles on the outside. As a heat load these should dwarf any marginal heat loads introduced by whatever recreational drugs. And the station has to have radiator capacity handle it all plus margin. Remember, too, that the ISS crew also has to do hard exercise 2 hours per day.

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.

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.

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.

37! my girlfriend sucked 37 dicks!

In a row?!

A purist would know that it’s not Star Trek if Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are not present. We don’t need French men with English accents or William T. Ripoff!

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

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

"halt" might be difficult in orbit.

So what you're saying is the cooling system would in fact be OK with my 100 beer ration