Re: NASA paying people to lie in bed

In article <billvan-008831.00430109052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
bill van  <billvan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article <Xns9A98CC11E26A9opusthepenguinnettax@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>  Opus the Penguin <opusthepenguin+usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > Reunite Gondwanaland (Mary Shafer) (reunite.gondwana@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > wrote: 
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> > > On 8 May 2008 18:35:33 -0400, Jim Prescott
> > > <jgp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > > 
> > >> Got a few months to kill?  Like sleeping in late?  Want $17,000?
> > >> Then NASA has a job for you!
> > >> 
> > >> In order to learn more about the effects of microgravity on
> > >> humans NASA is looking for volunteers willing to stay in bed for
> > >> 90 days straight.  Since this isn't as easy as falling out of
> > >> bed, they are offering $17,000 in compensation.
> > >> 
> > >> http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/05/nasa-offers-500.html
> > > 
> > > They've been doing this for decades.  The pay has gone up over the
> > > years, naturally.
> > > 
> > > The informal name for the program is "Housewives in space".
> > > 
> > > Mary "It's an Ames program, I think"
> > 
> > Do I get Internet access?
> 
> Television? Bathroom breaks? Friends to play Scrabble with? Privacy?
> 
> I'm pretty sure this wouldn't be pleasant. I assume that what they're 
> trying to emulate is the wasting of muscle tissue and other effects -- 
> loss of bone mass? -- that come with weightlessness. The pay, for three 
> months at an annual rate of $68,000, is not screamingly high for 
> something that may leave you with health problems that take more months 
> to overcome.

After 5-6 months being bedbound, my BP regulatory system was shot, so
they had to ease me back into being vertical.  I suppose it didn't help
that my BP was always low.  Last time I went to the dentist, it was
118/74.  I'm practically dead...

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