Thursday, October 22, 2009

Have a Year and a Half to Spare?

Looking for something to do? How about spending 520 days isolated with five other people in a simulated Mars mission?
The crew will follow a programme designed to simulate travel to Mars (250 days), a 30 day Mars surface exploration phase and travel back (240 days). They will live and work in a facility in Moscow, which has been specifically designed for the needs of these simulations.
You'll have plenty of room in your 3 square meters of living space. It would be interesting to know exactly what this mission will pay, but I could only find the following:
For successful completion of the entire study including training before and follow-up after the isolation, the respective volunteer will receive a fixed compensation that is in line with international standards for participation in clinical studies.
I hope it's a large amount.

2 comments:

  1. I think that's like $15 and free potato chips.

    And will prove what I've known all along: if you stick 5 people in a very small space for 1.5 years, they will either (a) have lots of sex, or (b) kill one another.

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  2. If some people have sex, and others are excluded, then you might have a & b.

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