The sweetest job.... or the worst kind of torture?
Thursday, May 8th, 2008 - 5:55pm
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/05/nasa-offers-500.html
NASA is offering $17,000 for you to lie in bed for 90 days. Apparantly its to test the effects of being in a no gravity situation.
And to keep you entertained, you get a WoW account.
While it seems like the perfect summer job, there is no possible way I'd be able to stand it. After about 2 days I would probably start to go crazy. So how about you? Could you lie in bed for 90 days?
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Now imagine it's later in the evening and you're about to have sex with your girl. Suddenly she sits up, her boobies hanging out, and says, "Wait! We can't do it until you fling 10 cards into that hat over there!
I would have to be seriously hard up for cash to subject myself to something like this. What about going to the bathroom? I'm sure the first day would be a cake walk and seem like a dream gig, but I bet after only a week with 11 more stretched out in front of you some serious cabin fever would set in.
NO. I would go nuts.
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Can I have hundreds and hundreds of pine tree air fresheners hung from the ceiling? I'm in!
Just don't shine a flashlight in my face.
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It depends, how much movement are you allowed? What kinds of meals are provided? Can I sit up from time or roll around a bunch to get comfy? What other forms of entertainment are available?
I don't think I could make 90 days comfortably, but I'd last at least a week before I went nuts.
Fletcher wrote:
hmm if you can swap that wow account for a number of games to keep it fresh and I could do it if I could get the time off..
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Yeah, I think I could maybe do that if I had access to any movie/video game I wanted. But I'd still go a bit crazy after the first few days. I'd definitely need some movement allowed.
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something about the frank, unprovoked admission of assault with a deadly weapon tickles my funny bone
If it would have included spending time sitting at a desk in addition to lying in bed then that's close enough to regular life to be doable
, but just spending time in bed is a no-go.
I don't know, self! I still kinda suspect that this sucks!
I can think of some pretty fun things to do while lying down.
Wait... will they be observing at all times?
Fedaykin98 wrote:
Yeah, forget WoW; just send me women.
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I'd want to be able to switch between PC and consoles. The reason being is that i'd quickly get RSI on my mouse wrist if i was doing pretty much nothing but playing WoW or using the PC all day. Got to excersize and RSI my thumbs and fingers too.....
This one time, when playing a Final Fantasy game i had to switch the hold i had on the controller from using my thumb to press X all the time as the joint on my thumb was really hurting from the slight sideways bend it was performing all the time. Then, other times i've sprained the first part of my index fingers from using a really crappy keyboard which didn't have very good depression action on the keys....
PS. I'd never be able to sit in bed for 90 days and let my body waste away a little... i'd hate it!
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If I was a US citizen I would sign up for this. The job may make me go insane but I've been paid to do more unpleasant things.
Actually work with a guy who is fully willing to do this and has done it before. Not exactly the most stable man in the world and would have to keepy himself clean for 30 days but it's right up his alley.
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Danjo wrote:
Did you guys read the part lying at an incline with your feet higher than your head. No way, no way.
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I might go crazy but 17,000 bucks is a LOT of money down here. Sign me up.
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Yes, but playing WoW would kill me. Could I get some gameplay please?
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Yeah, you're right. No blood to the penis. It's not worth seventeen grand.
"Men like sex, thus boobies! Oogaba!" - dejanzie
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come on down to Rat Boy's nest!
light up a stogie, and soon you'll see
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I'd do it.
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I'll put in a vote for torture. I get pretty restless if I have to spend more than about two days in bed due to sickness, and the incline would just add to the discomfort. I think kaos' estimate is about right: one week, and then bring out the tinfoil hat and restraints.
..that much WoW time would be pretty sweet though.
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Bedsores and liquefied muscles? No thanks.
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Sure, you'd want to be able to switch games and platforms, troll GWJ, and have a few "conjugal visits," but it doesn't say a thing about alcohol use. You give me enough scotch, and I will endure all manner of unpleasant things. Just ask the friends I used to be wingman for.
Seriously, a catheter and bed sores can't be as bad as some of those nights.
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Oh man... 90 days stuck in bed? And at the angle they specified, to boot? Just shoot me.
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Hmmm....
$17k for 90 days in an uncomfortable bed with my feet above my head.
- or -
$23k for just living a normal life and going to work from 9 to 5 at my comfortable desk at work and going home to my comfortable house for the evening and weekends for the same time period.
I'll stick with my present life. Thanks anyway.
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See, I don't make the $68K a year that NASA is matching. Feel free to flash some of that cash my way, if you'd like, though.
rabbit wrote:
1Dgaf wrote:
bnpederson wrote:
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I don't think my ass would be able to take hat much sitting. As much as I like games I cant play for more than 4 hours at once.
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