NASA offering 18k to lay in bed face down for 70 days

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Either 97 or 105 days total, depending on if you are exercising or non-exercising

CFT 70 Countermeasure and Functional Testing in Head-Down Tilt Bed Rest

70-day study to test the effectiveness of exercise on loss of muscle, bone and cardiovascular function.

NASA scientists are working to find ways to keep astronauts healthier and safer when they spend a long time in space. Head down bed rest is a good way to mimic a person traveling in space without gravity.

Head-down bed rest helps researchers study people on earth in a way that causes some of the changes the body goes through while traveling in space without gravity. This study will show how much your body, tilted down slightly with head down and feet up, for 70 days, 24-hours a day, without getting out of bed, except for limited times for specific tests, is like an astronaut’s body during the weightlessness of space flight. Watching you will help scientists learn how an astronaut’s body will change in weightlessness during space flight in the future.

Subjects in this study will be tested on set of seven functional tests (Functional Task Tests) and a corresponding set of physiological measures before and after 70 days of bed rest. Results of the study will help us
Understand which mission tasks might be affected by changes in physiology during space flight,
Understand how physiological changes map to a person’s ability to do a particular task, and
Design countermeasures to prevent or minimize impairment to these physiological systems
The study will also evaluate the effectiveness of a new exercise program to maintain muscle size and strength, bone health, and cardiovascular function during 70 days of bed rest. The exercise program is called the countermeasure and functional testing (CFT) study.
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caleb4god said:
DipsetGeneral said:
****nut123 said:
$10.71 an hour,

I don't think it's worth the potential harm to your body.
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Damn, how you do that math?
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70 x 24 and then you divide 18000 by that. Thing is your getting paid every hour of the day, even while you sleep. Still prolly not worth it tho...
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Questionable since you sleep anyways, deduct how much you sleep now in your normal life from how often you are "working" by sleeping. There's 2 test groups, one does get to work out for first portion before going into the bedrest segment.

And lose them Gainz? Nahh
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You could turn it into 15 minutes of fame and fortune by doing like that one trainer who wrote "Fit to Fat," did, gain all the weight just to lose it again and write a book/blog/vlog about it.
 
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Wow NASA is reckless with it.

Out here throwing pittances at candidates volunteering to be a vegetable for 70 days.
 
Doesn't really make sense to compare it to an hourly rate. Especially when you're not doing anything.

I'm more worried about dying from boredom. What could you do?
 
Fantastic4our said:
Doesn't really make sense to compare it to an hourly rate. Especially when you're not doing anything.

I'm more worried about dying from boredom. What could you do?
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Listen to music or a television i suppose. I guess it would kinda be like bein laid up in the hospital after a bad accident or sumthin.
 
jbc908 said:
hell naw not 70 days straight, what if you gotta booboo
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For real tho :rofl: I though **** yea b/c I though it was when you sleep but cant sit still for 24 hrs for 70 days even tho its getting paid to do nothing
 
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Can't even stunt

I'd ******* lose it by 8pm on that first day :lol:
 
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caleb4god said:
Listen to music or a television i suppose. I guess it would kinda be like bein laid up in the hospital after a bad accident or sumthin.
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But that awkward *** position gonna have me like dude from friday my head my back my head n my back
 
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