Didn’t you wish to get paid for just lying down in bed all day? Well that’s actually happening. NASA is here to pay you for being in bed all the time.
NASA is currently looking for people to take part in their ‘Bed rest studies’, in which participants will have to stay in bed for 70 days straight. Each participant will get $18,000 just to hang out in bed.
Besides getting to do nothing for a month and a half, the pay is pretty good too. What else would you expect from a government job.
In addition to sleeping, participants can also read books, watch TV, play video games and use their phones as they please. Only requirement by NASA is that you can’t move around or do anything with your body. Just keep lying down, and remain in bed, it’s all good!
The experiments are meant to see how the body reacts to extended of periods of rest for astronauts who are going on extended periods of space travel i.e. Mars. NASA claims that ‘Head Down’ bed rest is the best way to stimulate zero gravity space.
NASA says the experiment is designed to achieve three things: 1) Understanding how one’s changing physiology in space may affect the process of certain missions. 2) Understanding the impact of one’s physiological state on their ability to perform in particular tasks and 3) Preparing countermeasures to combat any impairment that these physiological conditions may impose.
Experiment participants are broken up in to two categories: Non-exercising and exercising. The exercising groups are able to exercise using special tools that help them stay active while still lying down. Now that’s pretty much my main concern with this study. Will all this bed rest make me fat? While non-exercising groups must stay completely at rest the entire time. That means they can’t do anything except play their videos games and read. If I was in this study, I would probably want to start writing a novel or something. Maybe I could produce a bestseller while getting paid to rest. For the first 13 days non-exercising subjects and 21 days for exercising subjects, can move around (in and out of bed) within the bed rest facility. But after that, you they cannot leave the bed.
During the entire experiment, bone, muscle and heart tests, as well as tests of the circulatory and nervous systems, nutritional condition, and the body’s capacity to fight off infections are conducted.
If you live a stressed out lifestyle, this bed rest study could give you the much-needed down time you’ve been needing in order to catch up on your sleep and recover. Fast-paced lifestyles can be draining and this might be the solution to that for you.
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