They offer 19 thousand dollars for spending 60 days in bed

NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA, for its acronym) have announced an experience that has attracted the attention of more than one. The offer is tempting because it offers as price the sum of 19 thousand dollars. And the work would seem simple: it consists in pbading two months lying on a bed.

The initiative was born because both organizations They want to study the changes that the body of an astronaut undergoes in space. Could this context of lack of seriousness be compared to a whole day lying down?

The organizers will select only 24 volunteers, who must accomplish the only task of not getting up from bed before 60 days. The physical workplace will be at the German Aerospace Center.

"Join now the study of bed rest! For a better life," they have published on the program's official website. "On behalf of NASA and ESA, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) is studying how the body is changing weightlessness … Here on Earth, bed rest simulates this state, we are looking for people to participate to a study to rest in bed from September to December 2019 in Cologne and spend 60 days recostados ", detailed.

However, all that glitters is not gold. The selected individuals will spend the first 15 days in an acclimatization process and then rest for two months. unable to get up at all.

The experts specified that the bed will be slightly inclined so that the legs are higher than the head and thus improve circulation. In turn, the volunteers are brought to a centrifuge so that the blood returns to the feet when simulating the effects of gravity.

Although there are not many requirements to register, interested persons must comply with certain specifications, such as not smoking and measuring between 1.53 and 1, 90.