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UNBELIEVABLE: Alcor - Caught on Camera

How to see the 'Horse and Rider' in the Big Dipper's handle this summer

Mizar, a star in the Big Dipper's handle, has a tiny companion. This star, Alcor, was known to the ancients. The pair was popularly known as the "Horse and Rider."

Space

You can take it with you! The billionaires freezing themselves for another chance at life – and riches

No self-respecting plutocrat wants to cheat death by cryopreservation, only to find they are now penniless. Can the lawyers help?

The Guardian - UK

Frozen billionaire accused of sex abuse could be charged if defrosted

He is being sued for hundreds of millions of dollars

The Independent UK

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How the other half live (forever)! All the weird ways the uber-rich try to cheat death

From medical concierges and (young) blood transfusions to Succession-approved cryogenics, Maddy Mussen explores how the 1 per cent are trying to defy death

Evening Standard

Peter Thiel confirms he’s signed up to be cryogenically frozen after death but says it’s more of an ‘ideological statement’

"We should either conquer death or at least figure out why it’s impossible," said the tech billionaire.

Fortune

"Longtermism" is everywhere — and toxic

Whatever we may "owe the future," it isn't a bizarre and dangerous ideology fueled by eugenics and capitalism

Salon

Inside US lab where 200 frozen people are waiting to be brought back to life

The Alcor Life Extension Foundation stores frozen heads and bodies at its lab in Scottsdale Arizona and believes science will one day be able to revive them

Daily Mirror

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