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Alcor
[ al-kawr ]
- a star, the fifth-magnitude companion of Mizar in the handle of the Big Dipper.
Word History and Origins
Origin of Alcor1
Example Sentences
And a smaller quibble: movie also purports in an early scene to show the double star Mizar and Alcor, but the photograph on screen is not of them.
And a smaller quibble: movie also purports in an early scene to show the double star Mizar and Alcor, but the photograph on screen is not of them.
Bostrom himself wears a metal buckle around his ankle with instructions for Alcor to "take custody of his body and maintain it in a giant steel bottle flooded with liquid nitrogen" after he dies.
But this is a deal compared with the rates at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Arizona.
In 2009, Larry Johnson, a former employee of Alcor, alleged in a book that workers in the facility in Arizona had a few years earlier mutilated Ted Williams’ frozen head.
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