NASA Will Pay You $19,000 to Stay in Bed -- and be Spun in a Centrifuge:
Like to lounge in bed? We might have your dream job.
NASA and the European Space Agency will pay you $19,000 to lie in bed for two months. Two months! That's a lot of Netflix.
The prolonged bed rest is part of a study that launched this week into the effects of weightlessness on the human body. Phase 2 will be conducted by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) from September through December in Cologne, Germany.
"We are interested in how to maintain the health and performance of man -- in space and on Earth," reads a translated DLR website for the project. "Especially in extreme conditions, such as in weightlessness in space, this is a challenge." If astronauts are to live for long periods in space, or on the moon and Mars, science needs effective measures to counteract bone and muscle atrophy.
For the next phase of the Agbresa (Artificial Gravity Bed Rest Study), the DLR seeks 12 men and 12 women who will spend their days and nights in beds angled downward by 6 degrees, propped up with their feet at an incline above their heads, with one shoulder touching the mattress at all times. This position reduces blood flow to the extremities, like astronauts in space experience.
[...] Not everyone qualifies though. Participants are required to speak German and be between 24 and 55 and healthy. In addition to the 60 days required for bed rest, participants will stay an additional 29 days for acclimation and supervised recovery involving stretching, massage and physiotherapy.
When lying down on the job is a good thing.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @02:18PM (1 child)
Is NASA not even hiding their roots in operation paperclip nazis any more?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @02:28PM
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @02:19PM (8 children)
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Snow on Friday March 29 2019, @02:56PM (4 children)
It's also 2 months of nofap.
Let's see here. 19,000 / 60 / 24 = $13.20 an hour with no overtime pay. That doesn't include the 29 day recovery (although that does include free massages).
Not enough money for me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @03:57PM
Says who?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @04:07PM (1 child)
That's not in the article. It doesn't say anything about nose-picking, crotch-scratching, farting, or belching either, but you'd probably be comfortable doing those. Are you sure you're not just assuming the nofap because you're ashamed of pleasuring yourself?
(Score: 2) by Snow on Friday March 29 2019, @04:33PM
Yes, exactly. Even though I grew up in a not-so-catholic house, the shame still runs strong.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Friday March 29 2019, @06:51PM
Well...where else are you going to get paid for time spent sleeping? You'd have to be getting almost $60/hr to get the same pay in two months of a traditional 40 hour a week job. And laying in bed all day certainly beats working two or three jobs if you actually wanted to get paid for every possible hour of your day.
You could also consider free room and board to be part of the compensation package. Potentially medical care too, as I'm sure they'll have some kind of medical staff monitoring the experiment, since that would seem to be the entire point of the thing. Although TFS doesn't mention if they'll cover care for any resulting injuries. But I kinda doubt they wouldn't -- it's NASA, they don't have to worry about it cutting into the executive bonuses, they wouldn't want the potential PR nightmare, and they'll probably be getting insurance for it.
Even $20/hr isn't a terrible wage for a no skill low effort job. Probably doesn't beat a skilled coder job, but it sounds like a great gig for a day laborer. Hell, a lot of coders might not meet the health requirements anyway ;)
Also depends if it includes wifi and if they let you bring your laptop...a lot of people would consider that a pretty sweet gig. The only problem being that it's too long to just take some time off of most existing jobs, and too short to pay the bills for very long or to sublet your apartment or anything like that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @06:12PM
Really. I have personal experience with atrophy. I had to have my shoulder in a sling for six weeks. At the end of it I could not lift my arm. I was still doing rehab exercises a year later.
I would never risk this.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Friday March 29 2019, @06:19PM (1 child)
Bedpan.
This sig for rent.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @06:32PM
on an incline!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @03:03PM
TFA title triggered the porn filter
(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Friday March 29 2019, @03:22PM
Millenials need jobs too!
(ducks, hides under desk)
Why is it so difficult to break a heroine addiction?
(Score: 4, Informative) by maxwell demon on Friday March 29 2019, @03:54PM
That story sounds familiar. [soylentnews.org]
Granted, the previous one didn't tell us how much you get paid for it.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @04:05PM (4 children)
Who's to explain what happens to you during those two months. Lose a limb, get a stroke, internal organs lost... But we know the U.S murders its own citizens (and those of other countries) on a regular basis, so permanently harming a few people is well within their everyday business.
Also, no bathing or washing for two months. Looks like khazar jews would qualify for this job without even telling about their holohoax. Let us give them a real one.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Snow on Friday March 29 2019, @04:40PM (1 child)
Low effort Jew trolling.
At first I though this might have been an ethanol-fueled comment, but his trolling has a much higher quality.
How about in the future, leave the Jew trolling to him? He's better at it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 30 2019, @03:31PM
Are you a jewish rat?
(Score: 2) by etherscythe on Friday March 29 2019, @05:15PM (1 child)
But how many of them still speak German?
"Fake News: anything reported outside of my own personally chosen echo chamber"
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Friday March 29 2019, @06:35PM
Exactly! Why would NASA sponsor this unless they're planning to freeze-dry a few 12-packs of ubermensch and send them out into the stars to start the fourth reich?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday March 29 2019, @06:39PM (1 child)
I'm already too old for them. But, the thought ran through my had, "This sounds pretty cool!"
Second thoughts chased that first thought away pretty quickly. I started noticing about a decade ago that I don't heal as quickly as I once did. A little scratch used to take a few days to heal up, now it might take weeks. I have aches and pains sometimes, that aren't so easy to ignore, and don't go away quickly.
So - let's suppose that I were accepted into this experiment, and I laid in bed for two months. How long would it take me to recover from that? WOULD I recover, or would I only come part of the way back, then suffer from various issues until I check out of this earthly vacation spa?
That kind of puts things into perspective for all of us older people. Space exploration isn't for us, unless we're just tired of living anyway.
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @10:31PM
It's even better than neosporin for a lot of injuries, especially if you're not diabetic (it's more of a risk if you're diabetic, but even then it can help for small cuts. A neighbor when I was little used it religiously since she had paper thin skin that could tear very easily.)