NASA offers $5000 dollars a month for you to lie in bed


	NASA offers $5000 dollars a month for you to lie in bed

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5-10-2008 6:50 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6d78c600-69eb-4de7-81fd-b4899dd89aff/F8B24608-3314-4660-BB2C-2501B4D87DD8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/05/nasa-offers-500.html" href="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/05/nasa-offers-500.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.wired.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/05/nasa-offers-500.html"><P>
 Need a break from the working, walking, and standing required by the demanding and stressful life you lead? </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/05/nasa-offers-500.html"><P>Well, pack your bags for Houston because NASA wants to pay you $17,000 to stay in bed for 90 straight days. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/05/nasa-offers-500.html"><P>The bed-rest experiment, to take place in the <A href="http://www.bedreststudy.com/default.aspx">Human Test Subject Facility</A> of Johnson Space Center, is designed to allow scientists to study some of the effects of <A href="http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/Other_Groups/PAO/html/microgex.htm">microgravity</A> on the human body. We read on the <A href="http://www.bedreststudy.com/Bedrest.aspx">Bed Rest Study</A> website: </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/05/nasa-offers-500.html"><P>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.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/05/nasa-offers-500.html">astronauts who've spent lengthy stays in space have <A href="http://astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov/news/expandnews.cfm?id=988">suffered serious repercussions</A>. Our bodies have evolved mechanisms to deal with a certain amount of gravitational force--namely, the amount present on Earth; reduce <EM>g </EM>and <DEL>blood pools in the feet,</DEL> muscles atrophy and bones lose their density.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/05/nasa-offers-500.html"><A href="http://www.bedreststudy.com/Apply.aspx">feel free to apply</A></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F8B24608-3314-4660-BB2C-2501B4D87DD8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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