Would you stay in bed for 70 days for $18,000?

[Dion]

The only catch: You can't get out of bed for 70 days.

NASA is looking for study participants to help with its research into the effects of long-term spaceflight on the human body.

Scientists claims that having people lie in bed for 70 days is the easiest way to study the effects of microgravity on the body without having to opt for the more expensive option: actually sending people to space.

"Watching you will help scientists learn how an astronaut’s body will change in weightlessness during space flight in the future," the agency said in a statement.

Approved bed-rest participants — sorry, couch potatoes, you have to be very healthy to make the cut — will be paid $18,000 for 15 weeks of their time.

After spending two weeks at the Johnson Space Center, where scientists will observe participants' bodies in normal conditions and participating in normal activities, study subjects will move to NASA's Flight Analogs Research Unit (FARU) at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas, where they will spend the next 70 days lying in a bed tilted head-down at a six-degree angle.

Getting out of bed is not an option. A modified shower gurney allows participants to bathe. Meals are delivered to their bedside. Participants can read books, Skype with friends, check Facebook, watch TV and even work — an easy way to boost that work-from-home income?

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/good-...4002.html?vp=1

[jeffman]

Can't you get a blood clot doing this?

[Cowboy89]

That's a pay cut for CP members!

[Wormius]

Apply for the study here. Sorry, Canadians. This opportunity is just for our neighbours south of the border.

Years of disappointment in "sorry, US citzens only" scenarios has taught me to read these too-good-to-be-true stories from the bottom up.

[Locke]

I'm sure 'Honey-boo-boo's' mom is on a list somewhere. If she hasnt done this already.

[WilderPegasus]

Are you allowed conjugal visits? If so sign me up!

[Dion]

Originally Posted by WilderPegasus

Are you allowed conjugal visits? If so sign me up!

How about 70 days of sex in bed?

[Displaced Flames fan]

$18K to risk long term negative health effects? Not a chance.

[icecube]

I'll need a bedpan, a copy of gta 5 and domino's pizza on speed dial.

[flylock shox]

The boredom and health consequences would suck, but the worst part would be the fact they're watching you the whole time. As if your life wasn't limited enough by being bedridden, most of the fun stuff you could do in bed isn't stuff you'd want a half dozen nerds watching you do.

I'd only consider it as a means to get out of an unhappy marriage or to avoid a mob hit.

[kirant]

As long as I have a computer, a bedpan, and nothing else to do...sure.

[Regulator75]

Would they be cleaning the bedding regularly?

[Red Ice Player]

I wouldn't do it for twice the money. There are the obvious health concerns, being watched 24/7, unbelievable boredom and the very fact a healthy human cannot stay horizontal for more than two months. Staying in bed will get painfull after a while. That's why we get out of bed daily.

[edn88]

Is Scarlet Johanson involved? If so, I'd be in, otherwise no.

[JobHopper]

I like sleeping in now and again but I couldn't do it. My back would be sore after like 2 days.

[TurnedTheCorner]

Yes.

[Neeper]

No way. You would be come a vegetable. Also imagine the boredom, that would get to me.

[Anduril]

Would be tough... If I had two months to throw away it might be interesting to try but I'd imagine the $18000 might enough to pay for recovery treatment as a result of participating.

[Clarkey]

Has Mrmastadonfarm been on this experiment for the last 5 years?

[Northendzone]

as an aside, this salary works out to $93,857 annually - you'd almost be a 1.0%'r.......

It would be interesting to try it for a couple of days.......