If anyone needs $18,000 – contact the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, a.k.a – NASA. Right now the organization is offering that huge sum of money for people to spend 70 days in bed.
If you like lying in bed for that long, doing whatever you like to do in bed, NASA is offering $1,200 per week for 15 straight weeks (totaling up at almost 18 thousand dollars) to people willing to put their body through intense distress so they can study the effects of microgravity on human bodies prior to sending individuals into to space, claims Forbes Magazine.
According to the NASA website, Microgravity is the “condition in which things appear to be weightless” – so the intent of the study is not to see the effects of microgravity on people but to aid scientists in developing a manner in which to combat the negative effects of microgravity. Typically, when an astronaut is under prolonged periods of microgravity muscles will deteriorate from the little stimulation they’ll experience in space; Dr. Cromwell told Forbes that the test subjects will be asked to perform routines astronauts might once the bed rest is completed.
The one catch – all subjects must be in perfect physical and mental health. Think you can do it?