The Things That Go On While You Eat Your Cornflakes

As you sit here reading this, there is a UTMB study going on in Galveston to figure the deteriorating effects on the body while in space long term (six months is long in space). The scientists recruit a group of healthy individuals which are to lay down continuously for SIX MONTHS! They may not raise above six degrees and are put on a diet controlled by calories. Yes they are paid, but while you go about your day to day business, there are healthy bodies down in Galveston willingly breaking down. I could not imagine letting the bone loss, muscular atrophy, heart shrinkage, and who knows else occur to my body happen while I lie there able to do something about it. (Imagine the looks of a bedridden nursing home resident.) I couldn't imagine being a scientists that monitors and records the data for this experiment. When I asked a scientist on this project why they just couldn't evaluate a person that is just recently bedridden, she stressed how important it was that the individual be completely healthy. Egads! I wonder what Spock would think of our barbaric science.