My exile will certainly last less than 60 days, plus I am able to walk around every couple hours or so. There seems to be some human necessity to seek out groups worse off (or better off) than oneself. Boing Boing: 60 days in bed for space medicine study:
The BBC News reports on a recent study at the French space agency's Institute for Space Medicine and Physiology where volunteers spent two months in bed. The aim was to better understand how extended stays in space could impact the body, causing a loss of bone mass, fluid, and muscle
from the Beeb
The three-month experiment at the French space agency (CNES) Institute for Space Medicine and Physiology (MEDES) in Toulouse was designed to look at the likely effects of space flights on the female astronauts of the future
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Confined to bed for two months, she was forced to shower, eat and exercise while lying with her legs slightly higher than her head, a position that mimics the effects of the weightless environment of space.But she described it as a strange and wonderful scientific experience.
“It does waken up your sense of adventure,” she told the BBC News website.
“You feel much closer to what it must be like in space.
”It seems really strange now thinking, 'Oh my goodness, I've been two months in bed'.“
