125 Scientists need 16,500 condoms?
According to the Australian ABC news, one of the last shipments to a US research base in Antarctica before the onset of winter darkness was a year’s supply of condoms.
Bill Henriksen, the manager of the McMurdo base station, said nearly 16,500 condoms were delivered last month and would be made available, free of charge, to staff throughout the year to avoid the potential embarrassment of having to buy them.
The base only has a skeleton staff through the long winter.
“Since everybody knows everyone, it becomes a little bit uncomfortable,” Mr Henriksen told the Southland Times newspaper.
About 125 scientists and staff are stationed at McMurdo base, the largest community in Antarctica, during the winter months when there is constant darkness.
The first sunrise will occur on August 20 and McMurdo’s population will start to increase again in September when supply flights resume, peaking at more than 1,000 during the summer period.
OK then, 1000 scientists just might need 16,500 condoms but aren’t those Americans sexy? Woo hoo, I love it! You gotta admire those scientists for always using safe sex.
A condom is a device most commonly used during sexual intercourse. It is put on a man’s erect penis and physically blocks ejaculated semen from entering the body of a sexual partner.
On average, each scientist needs 16.5 condoms each month. It is not a small number. Interesting to know this.
Hummel, thanks a lot for that bit of information. I suspect that 99.999997 people already knew that and the part of a person who didn’t probably isn’t getting laid.
Are those too much sexy or they like safe sex? I think it will be going on many times a day for these figures.
16 condoms per month per scientist is tiny, it wouldn’t last me a week!!! Give em more……!!
Only??!!!
I am assuming that scientists are less romantic and less sexual. They need something more to improve sexuality ion their life.