A dream vacancy: two months lying in bed in France
Open vacancy for young, healthy men, who will have two months to lie in bed and do absolutely nothing. Will pay €16 000.
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Strange position at the Institute for space medicine and physiology in Toulouse (France). Successful applicants will become participants of the experiment, by which the researchers intend to study the influence of microgravity.
Candidate can be a healthy male between 20 to 45 years with a body mass index of 22 to 27 units. Subjects are required to spend in the supine position for 60 days.
However, their beds are tilted to the legs above the torso. To eat and wash, they also will be lying down, reports Meduza.
According to scientists, the purpose of the experiment is to replicate the state of the muscles of astronauts who are on ISS
Scientists plan to find the right drug that will reduce the damage to muscles in weightlessness.
The amount promise to pay, of course, tempting, but there is a caveat: the subjects will receive it not immediately, but within four years.
You can apply on the website of the Institute.