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NASA Offers $5000 a Month For You to Lie in Bed
tracer818 writes "In order to study a person as if they were in space without gravity, NASA scientists are paying subjects $17,000 to stay in bed for 90 straight days. The study will follow the Bed Rest Project standard model and be conducted at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. Participants will live in a special research unit for the entire study and be fed a carefully controlled diet."
Can I bring a friend? In all seriousness, what if you need to rub one out?
The one with Martin Sheen in it and they keep sending the soldiers into nuclear fallout to test whether or not they can advance to ground zero.. oh yeah, that's right Nightbreaker. How many times exactly does NASA need to study the effect of weightlessness? It's bad, ok? Long term exposure to "micro-gravity" causes not too nice symptoms. Great, move on. NASA never seems to approach anything as a problem that needs to be overcome - or at least they haven't since the '60s. Problem: without some form of gravity, long term space flight is bad for humans. Solution: provide some form of gravity. There's two that readily come to mind; either accelerate the vehicle at 9.8m/s/s or make the vehicle big enough so that you can spin it and not get dizzy. The first uses up way too much energy and just isn't an option at the moment. The second is so damn obvious that Von Braun was talking about it in the '40s. But it has never been done.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Things to do today:
Find out if NASA will let me have a laptop in that bed.
Find out if my boss will let me telecommute for the next 90 days.
"An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it." Col. Jeff Cooper
Will they also pay to rehabilitate you and your degenerated muscles afterwards?
I know I cannot lay on my back or side for that matter for too much time. More than 6 hrs on my back and my back starts hurting. More than 3 hrs on a side and my shoulder starts aching, so I have to change position at least once a night. I would expect for most, after about two straight weeks things would start getting torturous as there would be no side you wanted to lay on anymore.
I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.
Who would want to lay next to someone for three months? Tolerating one's own smell would be enough of a problem at that point.
I just read Slashdot for the articles.
and do a cross promotion, in particular concentrate on World of Warcraft players. With Season 4 PvP gear coming down these people will have lots of reason to spend all their time in one place
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
and $4500 for having to live in Galveston, TX.
"It doesn't cost enough, and it makes too much sense."
Do you have a big mortgage? You're getting "welfare" when you deduct your interest payments from your income taxes.
Do you have a kid in college? You're getting a nice fat welfare payment in the form of Pell Grants.
Are you an oil company exec or trader at Goldman Sachs or Morgan Chase? You're getting a HUGE amount of welfare from our federal government in the form of exploration "incentives" and handouts from the Fed to buy your competitors.
Are you a banker? You're getting a hell of a lot of "welfare" by being able to borrow money from the government at 2% and turn around and loan it to your credit card customers at 30%;
Generally, folks who are complaining about "lazy welfare recipients" are those who want government to leave them alone when it comes to profits but asks for socialism when it comes to their losses.
When the government gives you $400 it's called "welfare" and you are looked down on. When the government gives you $400Million it's called "capitalism" and you are considered a shrewd and successful businessman.
You are welcome on my lawn.
So give a source in Russian. Otherwise you're saying "I can prove this but most people reading wouldn't be able to understand it so I just won't bother"