Sleep is final frontier for French scientists studying microgravity as they seek 24 men willing to eat and perform all bodily functions in bed for 60 days
Wanted: young, fit and healthy men willing to lie on their backs and do absolutely nothing for two months. Wage: €16,000. Researchers at France’s space medical institute are advertising for what could be, quite literally, a dream job. They are seeking volunteers to spend 60 days flat on their back to study the effects of microgravity, a state of virtual weightlessness. [Read more]. |
- Kim Willsher, Wanted: space volunteers willing to lie in bed for two months – for €16,000, The Guardian, April 4, 2017
A screengrab from 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick (1968), showing the astronaut David Bowman in his ultimate neoclassical bedroom. Screenshot by Nicholas T. Davis.
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