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Need a break from the working, walking, and standing required by the demanding and stressful life you lead?

Well, pack your bags for Houston because NASA wants to pay you $17,000 to stay in bed for 90 straight days.
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Jokes aside, astronauts who've spent lengthy stays in space have suffered serious repercussions. Our bodies have evolved mechanisms to deal with a certain amount of gravitational force--namely, the amount present on Earth; reduce g and blood pools in the feet, muscles atrophy and bones lose their density. It can take astronauts (or cosmonauts) months to readjust to the Earth's gravitational force.

If you're still interested, feel free to apply. You'll have to pass the Air Force medical examination standards and take a blood test, which we assume means that you won't have any help from recreational drugs to alleviate the boredom of lying prone for 2,160 hours.

Wired.com: What kind of entertainment options do people have?
Cromwell: We provide computers that are linked to the web and can play computer games. [Ed: Level 70 Paladin here we come!] They have their own television monitors that hang over the bed. They also have a sort of central common area, a subject lounge, where we can roll the beds out and they can play cards and board games.

Wired.com: Can you bring a a PS3 or Xbox 360?
Cromwell: There is already a game system on the TV unit. I am looking into what kind of system we have. If a subject would like to bring their own system that is also doable.

Wired.com: What do you eat? Do people lose or gain weight?
Cromwell: A lot of people think we serve astronaut food, but it's not. It's regular food. We have our own kitchen on the unit… An isocaloric diet is designed to maintain a participant's body weight.

Wired.com: What do people do for the ninety days?
Cromwell: We require that subjects come in to the study with a goal -- something they can do that can pass the time and look forward to each day. It might be something like learning a language. I have someone who is continuing his employment. I have another subject who is looking to make a career change.

I'd like to say I'd be down, but I can't even stay in bed when I call out sick. Six hours of napping and TV and I'd want to clean the kitchen or something.