Sunday, May 11, 2008

Need $17 Thousand Bucks?

NASA is looking to pay someone $17 Thousand bucks to spend 90 days in bed doing nothing. If you are feeling this is your chance to blow off work for 90 days, do absolutely nothing and still get paid for it. Then this is the job for you.
After the first 11-15-day period, participants will spend 90 days lying in bed, (except for limited times for specific tests) with their body slightly tilted downward (head down, feet up). Every day, they will be awake for 16 hours and lights out (asleep) for 8 hours.
So really if you have some reading to catch up on or you just haven’t been able to find the time to catch up on some long overdue letter wrting then this might be the perfect situation for ya. Apparently there is some actual science behind this study. Our bodies have evolved special mechanisms to deal with the gravitational forces that act on us while we are here on Earth. Astronauts that spend extended periods of time in space under much lower gravitational forces experience problems with muscle atrophy and loss of bone density. NASA scientists use the head down ass feet up bed test to simulate these conditions.
So if you are tired of your job or just finished college and are trying to avoid the real world fill out the application and see if you can spend your summer in bed.

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