Even better: Alcor is a spectroscopic binary, too!

开阳伴星也是分光双星！

Remember Mizar and Alcor, the Big Dipper eye test stars?

还记得北斗七星中测试视力的开阳星和开阳伴星吗？

At Alcor and the Cryonics Institute, once the body is put in liquid nitrogen, that's it.

在 Alcor 和人体冷冻研究所， 一旦将尸体放入液氮中， 就是这样。

The 10 patients being cryonically preserved at Yinfeng now might seem a small number when compared with the 181 at Alcor.

与 Alcor 的 181 名患者相比， 目前在银丰医院冷冻保存的 10 名患者可能显得微不足道。

The star marking the kink in the handle of the Big Dipper is actually two stars, one called Mizar, and a fainter one called Alcor.

北斗七星把手位置标记结点的那颗星实际上是两颗星，一颗叫开阳星，还有一颗较暗的叫开阳伴星。

Aaron Drake, the director of the clinical response centre at Yinfeng, which he joined in 2016, was previously Alcor's medical response director.

亚伦· 德雷克 ( Aaron Drake) 是他于 2016 年加入银丰的临床反应中心主任，此前他是 Alcor 的医疗反应主任。

In order to respond within seconds  of someone's death, Alcor has cryonics vehicles stationed permanently in Florida and Southern  California, and temporarily anywhere else with a high concentration of not-yet-dead customers.

为了在某人死亡后的几秒钟内做出反应，Alcor在佛罗里达州和南加州永久驻扎了人体冷冻车辆，并暂时驻扎在尚未死亡的客户高度集中的其他任何地方。

But basically, it works like this: high end companies like Alcor and  Yinfeng charge about $200,000 upfront if you want your full body frozen, or $80,000 for just your  head.

但基本上， 它的工作原理是这样的：如果你想冷冻全身， 像 Alcor 和 Yinfeng 这样的高端公司会收取大约 20 万美元的预付款，或者只冷冻你的头部则收取 8 万美元。

Now, companies  like Alcor have a bit of a legal hurdle right from the outset, because freezing a living person  is considered, in most countries, to be murder, and murder is considered, in most countries,   to be frowned upon.

现在，像 Alcor 这样的公司从一开始就面临着一些法律障碍，因为在大多数国家，冷冻活人被认为是谋杀，而谋杀在大多数国家被认为是不可接受的。

I mean, I can't legally say that Alcor is a cult, but let's just call them a " small  group of people characterized by a great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work." So what happens if none of this actually works?

我的意思是，我不能从法律上说 Alcor 是一个邪教，但我们就称他们为“一小群对某个人、某个想法、某个物体、某个运动或某个工作有着极大忠诚的人。”那么，如果这些都不起作用会发生什么呢？