![]() ![]() ![]() AFP PHOTO / ludovic MARIN (Photo credit should read LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP/Getty Images) LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP/AFP/Getty ImagesĪ government-funded Swedish art project will pay you to do whatever you wantĪ team of nutritionists will curate the meals so that participants do not gain weight and have all the nutrients they need. Participants will do everything lying downĪll activities – including eating, showering and going to the bathroom – must be done while lying down.Įach participant will have a private room and stay in a bed inclined at 6 ° with the head end downwards.Ī picture on Novemshows a view of the Swedish port city of Gothenburg. “This bed rest study … offers space researchers from all over Europe and the USA the opportunity to work together and jointly acquire as much scientific knowledge about human physiology as possible.” “Crewed spaceflight will continue to be important in the future in order to carry out experiments in microgravity, but we must make it as safe as possible for the astronauts,” says Hansjörg Dittus, executive board member for space research and technology at the German Aerospace Center. They are hoping to test it out on two-thirds of the study participants each day. The researchers have already created a “short-arm human centrifuge” that generates artificial gravity and corrects the distribution of body fluids. Subjects need to be very healthy,” NASA’s news chief, Kelly Humphries told Forbes.Orion is NASA's latest spacecraft designed to allow us to journey to destinations never before visited by humans, including an asteroid and Mars BRUCE WEAVER/AFP/AFP/Getty ImagesĪ NASA-funded study says long trips in space could destroy astronauts' stomachs and cause cancerīy simulating weightlessness’ effects with bed rest, scientists hope to develop methods to counteract the impacts of weightlessness so that astronauts do not have to spend most of their days on the space station exercising. Ironically, they don't want lazy people: "Couch potatoes is not an accurate description for what we are looking. The experiment's going down at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Because nobody actually really sleeps anymore, do they? However, as you'll be lying in bed, and not neccesarily sleeping the whole time, you're still welcome to use your phone, read, even answer emails if you can work remotely. If you want to take a shower, in order to ensure that you remain at a six-degree head tilt at all times, you have to use a specially modified shower gurney, which could be weird. ![]() ![]() Watching you will help scientists learn how an astronaut’s body will change in weightlessness during space flight in the future. This study will show how much your body, tilted down slightly with head down and feet up, for 70 days, 24-hours a day, without getting out of bed, except for limited times for specific tests, is like an astronaut’s body during the weightlessness of space flight. Head-down bed rest helps researchers study people on earth in a way that causes some of the changes the body goes through while traveling in space without gravity. Head down bed rest is a good way to mimic a person traveling in space without gravity. NASA scientists are working to find ways to keep astronauts healthier and safer when they spend a long time in space. 'Head down bed rest' is explained properly in the NASA report: Since there is no gravity in space, astronauts don't exert as much effort and might not get the necessary exercise they need to stay in shape. NASA hopes to find out how much body function is required for astronauts to complete a specific task. Subjects who complete the entire bed rest project (70 days, 24 hours a day) can earn up to $18,000 ($1,200 per week for a total of 15 weeks, which includes pre- and post-testing periods). A NASA study is recruiting volunteers to to lie in a downwards-tilting bed for some 'head down bed rest'. Every teenager / uni student / human being's dreams can now come true: you can get paid to sleep. ![]()
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