Saw this article today and all I could think was hmmm who would do this? Let me know in comments if you would! Sorry for some of the language but they are his words not mine, lol :)
You sit around all day playing Candy Crush and bitching on Twitter about
how Facebook sucks, so why not get paid a crapload of money while doing
that?
NASA is
recruiting volunteers to lie in bed for 70 days to research the effects of microgravity on the human body.
Volunteers will be able to have visitors and even have access to TV and the internet.
JACKPOT.
The first part of the study will take place for two weeks while you
loaf around, do normal stuff, and let scientists monitor you from time
to time.
After that, you'll spend the next 70 days in a tilted bed. There
you''ll have light for 16 hours a day, then darkness for eight hours a
day.
You can shower but only in bed.
And, as noted above, you'll have access to computers, a TV, books,
and the internet. You'll also be allowed visitors. NASA will provide you
with food, but only enough to keep you at a constant weight.
Everything is done from your tilted bed, except for when scientists
monitor your bone, muscle, and circulation as well as keep tabs on your
immune system. There also will be some kind of workout routine called
"countermeasure and function testing," which monitors how movements
affect muscle size and cardio health.
Basically, the bed study is to help monitor the effects of
microgravity, which is the kind of gravity you find in space. This
minimal gravity has often made astronauts feel all wonky and crappy when
they return to Earth -- basically because of loss of bone density and
muscle strength.
And since you use very little gravity already -- except for when you
go to the fridge to grab a beer and leftover chicken wings -- NASA
figures you'd be a good test subject.
Of course, it's not as easy as it sounds. It's 70 straight days of
lying in a bed with little to no activity. OH WHO ARE WE KIDDING THIS
AMERICA WE DO THIS SHIT FOR FREE.
The 70 days is followed by a 14-day period where your body is
rehabilitated and brought back to the shape you were in before the
study.
If you're interested, you can
apply for this dream job here.
And then be prepared to place your name among NASA's greatest
pioneers, like Armstrong, Glenn, Lovell, and Aldrin... only a lot fatter
and lazier and not in any way as heroic.
But otherwise, totally like them.
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