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NASA Offers $5000 a Month For You to Lie in Bed

Posted by samzenpus on from the I-know-someone-perfect-for-this dept.

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."

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  1. Re:What's that movie? by MichaelSmith · · Score: 4, Interesting

    make the vehicle big enough so that you can spin it and not get dizzy. [..] so damn obvious that Von Braun was talking about it in the '40s. But it has never been done. Actually something like that was done on skylab. You don't need to spin the spacecraft. You just need a cylindrical track which you can run around. It works very well.
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  2. Deeper understanding by AlpineR · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How much artificial gravity do you need? 1.0 G? 0.2 G?

    Will some experimental drugs help counteract the effects of weightlessness?

    Can the problems be alleviated with specific exercises during weightlessness?

    How long will it take to recover after returning to gravity? If an astronaut is weightless on a trip to Mars, can he be back up in a week or a month?

    If you want to treat something as a problem to overcome, you might need to know more than "It's bad", ok?