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And just in February of 2016, there was a cryonics breakthrough when for the first time, scientists vitrified a rabbit’s brain and showed that once rewarmed, it was in near-perfect condition, “with the cell membranes, synapses, and intracellular structures intact … [It was] the first time a cryopreservation was provably able to protect everything associated with learning and memory.”
就在2016年2月有了一个冷冻突破，科学家玻璃化兔子的大脑，复温之后兔子的恢复状况接近完美。这是冷冻保护第一次达到保护和学习、记忆有关的细胞膜、神经突触、细胞内部结构。

Once you’re vitrified, you need to keep being chilled, little by little, until after about two weeks, you’re down to -196ºC. Why? Because that’s the point at which nitrogen becomes a liquid, and you’re about to take a long-term liquid nitrogen bath.
玻璃化后，你要被慢慢降温2周到零下196摄氏度。因为这温度下氮气会变成液体，之后你就一直沐浴在液氮中了。

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Or as Alcor euphemistically calls it, “long-term care.” The new vitrified you now goes into what is essentially a large upright thermos that’s about 10 feet tall and 3.5 feet wide.

Alcor委婉地称其“长期护理”。玻璃化的你会进这个10英尺高，3.5英尺宽的大长桶。


You meet your new neighbors—three other vitrified people, each in their respective quadrant of the thermos, along with five people traveling super lean, with no body, whose heads are stacked in the middle column.

那里有你的新邻居：3个玻璃人在另三瓣中，5个人头挤在中间。


Or, if you’re in a heads-only thermos, you’ll be one of 45 brains sharing the space (the brain is what’s being stored, but they keep the brains in their heads because it’s riskier to remove a brain than to just keep it in there and use the head as a carrying case).
或者你在一个只有人头的大桶中，你的周围会是44个人头（他们把大脑保留在脑壳里，因为把大脑分离脑壳有点冒险，还不如让脑壳当作一个便于搬运的容器）。

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