Wanted: space volunteers willing to lie in bed for two months – for €16,000
by Kim Willsher in Paris from on (#2J3V2)
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: a16,000.
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.
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