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NASA offers $5000 a month for you to lie in bed

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Need a break from the working, walking, and standing required by the demanding and stressful life you lead?

Well, pack your bags for Houston because NASA wants to pay you $17,000 to stay in bed for 90 straight days.

The bed-rest experiment, to take place in the Human Test Subject Facility of Johnson Space Center, is designed to allow scientists to study some of the effects of microgravity on the human body.
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29 responses // NASA offers $5000 a month for you to lie in bed

  • I'll do it but i will require some things:

    1) refrigerator with my fav goodies in it, stocked regurarly
    2) a wireless laptop
    3) flatscreen tv with Dishnetwork, and all the netflix i want!
    4) ability to excerise on the bed and keep from going into atrophy
    5) a phone or cell to chat it up
    6) my dogs visit daily and play up on the bed


    afterall nobody said i had to stay in one position the whole time:

    LOL I made a t-shirt with this saying and think it fits here perfectly:

    Let's Face Facts:
    Life is just a distraction to get me outta bed!

    NASA...I'll be by the phone waiting for ya call.
    Hey, money is money!

    P.S.
    7) Must be non-taxable income!
    8) Oh guess i have to say this: Once a week conjugal visits from my hubby...LOL

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    ArtisticByNature
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    I think number four is the point. They want to see how far they can take someone and successfully rehabilitate them. I thought that was what the International Space Station was for. Let some astronauts and cosmonauts be their guinea pigs.
    ivxx
  • They are obviously not trying to attract any participants from the UK since an individual can net far more by lying in bed and claiming State Benifits.
    Purdey
  • my dream has come true!
    CarlosIsDown
  • Where do I sign up?
    IriEonE
  • Why is it that I find out about these kind of jobs way too late? I would have applied for it...I'm sure they would have found my resume to be quite impresive.
    MissJonaLyn
  • I would almost certianly lose what little sanity I have left. What human being could possibly do this.
    natedawson
  • http://www.bedreststudy.com/Bedrest.aspx
    Image...
    It looks true.
    kushan
  • http://www.bedreststudy.com/Apply.aspx
    Image...
    Any body from US may apply within.
    kushan
  • mmm...i can pay off like 1/4 of my tuition
    keeshii768
  • They would have to pay me a whole lot more than $17,000 to suffer muscle atrophy, lose about 6% of bone density (and possibly never recover it), and most likely lose my mind from laying in a bed with my feet higher than my head for 90 days.
    sapere_aude
  • 3 months! Imagine the bedsores and the inconvenience of needing the toilet! Maybe David Blaine will do it...he seems to be into that stuff!
    glenobo
  • Application sent!
    jpoRS
  • I think it's only for people that live within 300 miles of Houston. Since they ask that question on the application they probably won't take anyone oustide of that area.
    Argon18
  • Sounds like an amazingly awesome job, but I don't know if I can go for that long. Sure, it pays really well, but I can hardly sleep in past 9:00 AM, let alone 90 days worth of just lying there.
    Konstantino
  • Show where to sign up. Being paid to sleep?? Hellz yeah!
    Kallico75
  • Working for NASA isn't as impressive as I thought.
    hack26
  • I really don't think I could do that.
    I have to release my energy..
    and lord knows I have too much of it.
    Wicker_duh
  • FOR 17K I WOULD STAND ON MY HEAD FOR 90 DAYS!!!
    MVDIEGO
  • I was once in a hospital bed for just one WEEK and actually had to re-teach myself to walk again!! 3 months? I can't imagine the pain and time it will take to rehabilitate yourself afterwards.

    Who knows if they'll take care of you after the study? You might have to use that money for rehab. The money does not seem worth it!!
    organized_chaos
  • It's interesting that NASA is looking for volunteers for this study. Clearly it would be too much of a setback to their space program to use astronauts for this important study.
    donlking
  • Wow! This is where our NASA money is going to.
    KefKef
  • Hmm. I'm not sure if running the risk of being weakened to the point of no return is worth 17 Grand.
    ultravphunter
  • just put me on a morphine drip and i'll stay in bed for a few years - in fact , don't even pay me , i just need a hot nurse .
    malathion
  • All I need is food, water, and marijuana. I am down.
    lapedro
  • After the Guinea pig session would NASA foot the bill for the direct result of their experiment on the subject?
    Because lets face it the resultant on a human being of being bed ridden for 90 days would definite be profound psychologically and physiologically.
    Or do they expect the yet-to-be minute man to fund that from the $15000 netted from the gig..?
    jhydo
  • This reminds me of an experiment (non-scientific, to be sure) that a radio station put on one time -- they wanted to see how long one of their DJs could go without sleep.

    By the time the guy stopped this "experiment," he had gone psychotic. They said they didn't know if he would ever be the same again! I can't remember how long he went without sleep, but I'm sure his record has been broken by many folks on meth!

    So now NASA wants to pay somebody a measly $17K to see the effects of microgravity on the body??? Physical rehab alone would eat that $17K up in no time. Then there would be the psych rehab!

    But there are plenty takers for this! People figure, what the hell???
    audball515
  • it might be ok to have someone pay me to FINALLY get my itunes libraries united and organized?
    regina
  • I don't know if I could get my stuff organized in 90 days -- I would probably need more to get a grip on it!

    I would have to bring along a couple of my cats, though, just to keep from getting bored, and they could show me a thing or two about long-term bedrest!
    audball515

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