Space scientists will pay people $22,000 for lying back and doing nothing!

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Will you take the job?


http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/space-scientists-are-paying-people-22k-to-lie-on-their-back-for-60-days/news-story/96245a36e1cea4073bbbbdf4c816a923


WOULD you lay in bed for two months for an easy $22,000?

That’s what researchers at France’s space medical institute are hoping. They’re looking for 24 fit and healthy men to spend 60 days lying on their back in bed and will pay them €16,000 for the pleasure.

Why? Because they want to see what happens to the human body when it’s completely listless. In other words, a cheap simulation to study the effects of microgravity, a state of virtual weightlessness.

“The idea of this study is to reproduce the weightlessness of the International Space Station,” experiment co-ordinator Dr Arnaud Beck told French media outlet 20 Minutes.

“During the first two weeks, our scientists will do a whole series of tests and measurements on the volunteers. This will be followed by a 60-day period during which they must remain in bed, the head slightly inclined downwards at less than six degrees.”

It sounds easy, but would likely be a torturous experience for the volunteers.

They will have to wash, eat, defecate and entertain themselves all while lying down for nearly two months straight.

Researchers will choose 24 candidates who do not smoke, have a body mass index between 22 and 27 and are willing to undergo rigorous training prior to starting the extreme experiment.

As humanity lurches towards the ambitious goal of spending more time in space, and eventually colonising another planet, many space agencies have increased their research on the physical and psychological impact such an eventuality would have on us.
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Darmik
US been doing this for a long while now.
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its not good to do that. youll irreversibly damage your body
BlackHorse6969 posted...
its not good to do that. youll irreversibly damage your body


30 years from now we'll have a study on what kind of damage these studies do to the human body
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BlackHorse6969 posted...
its not good to do that. youll irreversibly damage your body


i wouldn't do that study :(. i already failed on the requirements.
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Current Events » Space scientists will pay people $22,000 for lying back and doing nothing!