How Much To Lie In Bed For 90 Days?

[Furtherman]

$5000?

Well, pack your bags for Houston because NASA wants to pay you $17,000 to stay in bed for 90 straight days. (http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/05/nasa-offers-500.html)

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.

[jeffdwright2001]

But you first have to drive there wearing a wig, trenchcoat, and a diaper.

[Furtherman]

But you first have to drive there wearing a wig, trenchcoat, and a diaper.

Already there. I could leave right now.

[underdog]

I didn't get paid for my teenage years. This is upsetting.

[Brad_Rush]

$5000?

Well, pack your bags for Houston because NASA wants to pay you $17,000 to stay in bed for 90 straight days. (http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/05/nasa-offers-500.html)

Depends on what I get for the 16 hours of the day I am awake. If I am just looking at a blank wall I would not even make it 30 minutes before I'd quit.

[DolaMight]

You would die of bedsores.


However, Sheepy and Erock could pull it off.

[GvacMobile]

Wait...they're gonna pay ME???

[Melissa the Accountant]

I think I heard something about this on NPR or somewhere one day. Maybe it was on "This American Life"? Now I'm just about going nuts trying to figure out where I heard it. They had a bit on a college-age girl who took part in this study where she did this - except I think it was only a month that she had to stay prone. By the end of it, she couldn't even walk anymore. She had to go through several months of rehab to regain her lost strength and coordination. She did have access to TV, and was allowed to read and talk with people and so on. They wheeled her bed outside sometimes to let her see the sun.

The same program also had a feature on a woman who took part in a study where she was blindfolded for a week or something, to see how quickly the brain starts to look for other avenues of getting sensory input, when sight is not available to it.

Anyway, it was very interesting, but I don't think I'd do that lying down for 90 days thing. I think people don't realize how much it would screw them up.

[A.J.]

It's been done.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/images/200712/20071225ho_brian_wilson1_500.jpg

[MobCounty]

Sounds like a dream come true! err until I read that it says you lie with your head slightly below your feet except for testing.. I did not see anything about being able to get out of bed for the bathroom.......

If I can't log on, play xbox and watch dvd's I'd go crazy, and having blood go to my head for 90 days sounds like shit too.

[Judge Smails]

I bet that they could get that woman who sat on the toilet for two years on board for this and they probably wouldn't even have to pay her.

[Chigworthy]

My back aches just thinking about it. My max bed time at this point is 6 hours.

[angrymissy]

Do you get video games? If so, I am so in.

[Chigworthy]

How about video games and a morphine drip. Then I'd consider.

[Recyclerz]

The only catch is that an angry grlNIN drops by every so often to argue with you while you're falling asleep. *


*Legal Disclaimer: I'm only kidding.

[Tenbatsuzen]

Do you get video games? If so, I am so in.

in answer to your question, yes, and you get internet. There's an article linked on FARK about it.

[grlNIN]

The only catch is that an angry grlNIN drops by every so often to argue with you while you're falling asleep. *


*Legal Disclaimer: I'm only kidding.

Man, that's rough.

You have probably missed every thread that extensively explains how i've brought him food at work and given him pedicures.

[Bob Impact]

Man, that's rough.

You have probably missed every thread that extensively explains how i've brought him food at work and given him pedicures.
Either way it was funny.

And there is NO WAY I could do this, at all.

[Mike Teacher]

Surprised the article didnt go a bit into what this might be applied to, like trying to survive a Mars Mission.

With current technology a humans to Mars and back round-trip is 18 months minimum; perhaps 2.5 years for some scenarios NASA has taken serious looks at. These are minimums, until we invent something better.

The biggest problem after the consumables is: Can humans live for that long without going batshit insane. The atrophy and other pysiological stuff are being studied here, but what about being in a spacecraft for a year and a half or more; do you turn into Jack Torrance?

Even if the Crew had a space as big as a house to live in, could you live in a house, never ever leaving that house, for a year and a half, or more? Quite possibly with no companionship at all other then saying hi to your fellow crew member.

People have stayed up for a long time, but were close to Earth, only a hundred miles or so from home. What about when home is 30 million miles away, no help available from anywhere except from whats inside that spaceship?

[Team_Ramrod]

There are many reasons NASA would never choose me for a mission to Mars; but on my behalf, the only reason I would turn down the opportunity to go is because of sex.

2.5 year possibility of not having sex, mixed with the probability of having 24/7 surveillance and not being able to rub one out makes me shy away from this sort of opportunity.

On a smaller scale; 90 days in a bed would be pretty rough. Expecially with the cameras they'd have on you at all times. $17,000.00 to go withouth 'stimulation' would be a tough sell, I'd rather come to work for a few weeks and call it even.

Does NASA provide a rub-n-tug service?

[midwestjeff]

FUCK! I applied and then read that you have to be a non-smoker. I would have lied if I would have known that and quit, if by slim chance they contacted me.

[Leticia]

In the question and answer part, they never even ask how people go to the bathroom or clean themselves...

[Furtherman]

Bump!

[Friday]

Fez should do this.