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If you mean the tampon industry: It already has been disrupted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menstrual_cup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menstrual_cup

by Kristine1975 11y ago

e40 11y ago
I love this bit: Menstrual cups are safe when used as directed and no health risks related to their use have been found. However, no medical research was conducted to ensure that menstrual cups were safe prior to introduction on the market. Ah, the old assumption of safety.
- nostrademons 11y ago
  Kinda like how saccharine was discovered because a chemist had neglected to wash his hands after coming home from work, bit into a dinner roll, found it sweet, and then went around tasting everything in his laboratory until he found the sweet compound? Makes me wonder how humanity ever discovered wine. "If you take grapes, squeeze the juice out of them, let it sit until its been colonized by a fungi, it'll develop a nerve poison that you should drink because it'll make you sick less often than water from that stream." To say nothing of beans, nutmeg, elderberry, or other foods that are poisonous when eaten raw.
  - bathMarm0t 11y ago
    I own a small vineyard. I can tell you without a doubt that the process of making wine is literally BEGGING to happen. The skin of the grape is covered with yeast cultures that are ready to ferment the sugar inside the grape. The second that there's a breaking of the skin (aka a deer comes by and grabs a snack), the process kicks off. After a couple of days, there's enough alcohol content in the grape that bees can hone in on the broken cluster (via smell or whatever). Get enough bees around, and they start eating more grapes, and voila. Bee-booze-chain-reaction. Ruined crop. RIP2015.
  - gcb0 11y ago
    fun fact: beer was discovered way, way before bread. those things happen by itself. leave grain in rain. next day: shitty beer. then just interact from there.

If you mean the tampon industry: It already has been disrupted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menstrual_cup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menstrual_cup

e40 11y ago

I love this bit: Menstrual cups are safe when used as directed and no health risks related to their use have been found. However, no medical research was conducted to ensure that menstrual cups were safe prior to introduction on the market. Ah, the old assumption of safety.

nostrademons 11y ago
Kinda like how saccharine was discovered because a chemist had neglected to wash his hands after coming home from work, bit into a dinner roll, found it sweet, and then went around tasting everything in his laboratory until he found the sweet compound? Makes me wonder how humanity ever discovered wine. "If you take grapes, squeeze the juice out of them, let it sit until its been colonized by a fungi, it'll develop a nerve poison that you should drink because it'll make you sick less often than water from that stream." To say nothing of beans, nutmeg, elderberry, or other foods that are poisonous when eaten raw.
- bathMarm0t 11y ago
  I own a small vineyard. I can tell you without a doubt that the process of making wine is literally BEGGING to happen. The skin of the grape is covered with yeast cultures that are ready to ferment the sugar inside the grape. The second that there's a breaking of the skin (aka a deer comes by and grabs a snack), the process kicks off. After a couple of days, there's enough alcohol content in the grape that bees can hone in on the broken cluster (via smell or whatever). Get enough bees around, and they start eating more grapes, and voila. Bee-booze-chain-reaction. Ruined crop. RIP2015.
- gcb0 11y ago
  fun fact: beer was discovered way, way before bread. those things happen by itself. leave grain in rain. next day: shitty beer. then just interact from there.