Some months ago I read a story on Slashdot about a NASA study that would be conducted. Test subjects would be confined to bed for a period of three months to simulate prolonged space flight. I thought about signing up for the study, but decided not to for a bunch of reasons. I'd be away from family for a long time first and foremost, I enjoy being physically active and refer to my weekly basketball as therapy, and it would probably take me a long time to get back to the kind of shape I'm in now. Come to think of it I was probably thinking about what bicycle to buy at about the same time.
A couple days ago I came across another story on slashdot pointing to Pillow Astronaut. It is a blog by one of the test subjects in the so called "bed rest study". I've really enjoyed reading this blog. It gives me a little glimpse of what I could have been doing if my circumstances had been different, and I signed up.
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