I know many of you are looking for ways to make some extra money — so I thought you’d be interested in seeing how our tax dollars at work might actually come around to help you by supplementing your income.
NASA Will Pay You $18,000.00 to Stay in Bed For 70 Days
Who says there’s a job crisis in America? NASA is currently looking to pay a number of volunteers $18,000 to lie in bed for 70 days. Participants will be allowed to play games, talk to friends and family members, take classes, even work remotely for their real job, as long as they do not get out of bed for the entire duration of the experiment.
The study will simulate the effects of microgravity on the human body by having the beds tilt head-down at a six-degree angle, forcing body fluids to shift to the upper part of the body and create cardiovascular conditions similar to what is seen during real spaceflight. Scientists will also be monitoring the atrophy of muscle and bone density in the subjects.
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I doubt if this experiment is available to New Zealanders, but staying in a downward-tilted bed for 10 weeks sounds like an experiment designed to rob the participants of any sound health that they were enjoying at the start of it. Not even for $18,000 is it worth the risk. It would surprise me if anyone completed that time span.
You’re on the right track, Barb. Did you read the requirements? Sounds to me like you’d have to be pretty close to being physically and mentally ready for the astronaut program to even get into this experiment. I wouldn’t even come close to making it to even the initial list, much less their “short list”.
You had my interest until the part about having to be in physical condition ready to join the program. I am having and will be off my feet for that long so I thought this might ideal outside the risks of complications. It would be hard to swallow in that position without aspirating which makes pneumonia a real threat plus all the extra fluid your heart and lungs would have to deal with. I wonder if they do anything for blood clot prevention?
It would probably cost that much for diapers and the person to change them. Probably just enough left over to pay someone to make you a peanut butter sandwich once in a while….Barb K.
Lets me out also. I don’t think I could stay in bed for 10 weeks and when you get through you will have to spend the 18 grand to restore your health if that would be possible, now if it were for a week I would do it but 10 no way
Monitor bone density and atrophy of the main energy item to move parts of the body no thanks I will keep the muscles I have because once they become atrophied it takes almost forever to get them back in shape . Not a good deal at all.