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13 Apr 2015 17:01:02
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NASA offers to lie in bed for 18 thousand dollars

NASA Experts suggest everyone to take part in an unusual experiment

Love lying in bed in the morning? Can spend the whole day there? Then you are the ideal candidate for the National Aeronautics and space research NASA.

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NASA Experts suggest everyone to earn up to 18 000 dollars for participating in the experiment in which test subjects would have to lie in bed, tilted down to 6 degrees for 70 days, reports the independent.co.uk.

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the Only condition is that all volunteers must be non-smokers and correspond to the third class of physical training in the U.S. air force. The American experiment will help scientists to understand what physical changes are happening to astronauts and how it affects the ability to perform certain tasks. The information obtained will help better tailor astronauts to the daily work in space.

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during the experiment, all volunteers will be under a slight angle, so that liquid can move in the direction of upper body. This is necessary in order to investigate cardiovascular symptoms similar to those that astronauts experience during expeditions.

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Participants were divided into two groups: the first will be within 105 days to be in NASA research center, combining bed rest with exercise. Second spend in bed 97 days without  exercises. All this time, NASA experts will gather information about the state of the bones, muscles, heart, cardiovascular, nervous and immune systems.

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to go to the toilet too, will have prone, to do this, volunteers will be issued with a hygiene devices, the modified NASA. After 70 days of the experiment, all subjects will undergo a two-week rehabilitation course.
of Course, not everyone can handle such a schedule, so NASA will pay them 1200 dollars a week, after this period, the participation in the experiment can be extended for up to 15 weeks.

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