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Vintage SciFi Magazine 'Galaxy' Preserved Online - And Hopefully Also SoundCloud (archive.org)
Long-time Slashdot reader Paul Fernhout writes: Archive.org has made available 355 issues of Galaxy Magazine for free access. Galaxy Science Fiction was an American digest-size science fiction magazine, published from 1950 to 1980 with stories from many sci-fi greats [including Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury, and Robert Heinlein]. At its peak, Galaxy greatly influenced the science fiction field. See also Open Culture and The Verge for more about the history of a magazine that help shape the imaginations of a generation of techies..
Meanwhile, Archive.org's Jason Scott -- who also founded textfiles.com -- says his own group of preservationists "plans large scale backing up of Soundcloud soon" -- or at least part of it. A placeholder page already informs visitors that "We are currently working on getting all the API data... We also are writing the scripts to get a good grab of everything we can." Scott told Motherboard Saturday "Our main concern is artists and creators suddenly finding their stuff gone, and making it so it's not in oblivion."
Meanwhile, Archive.org's Jason Scott -- who also founded textfiles.com -- says his own group of preservationists "plans large scale backing up of Soundcloud soon" -- or at least part of it. A placeholder page already informs visitors that "We are currently working on getting all the API data... We also are writing the scripts to get a good grab of everything we can." Scott told Motherboard Saturday "Our main concern is artists and creators suddenly finding their stuff gone, and making it so it's not in oblivion."
Genesis 1:1 and 14, âoeIn the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. ... And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years.â
If I weren't a Christian, I would become a Christian just from viewing the insane, desperate, blatant, lies of evolutionists (which include delusional people from all industries: astronomers, biologists, physicists, geologists, paleontologists, et cetera). The evolutionary bizarre claims of so-called âoescientistsâ are so absurd that any honest thinking person can see how intentionally dishonest and unscientific the whole thing really is. Satan truly is a beautiful liar!
Today I was watching a 2014 documentary series by National Geographic titled, âoeCOSMOS: A SPACE TIME ODYSSEY.â The follow is just INSANE!!!
Scientists now believe that the building blocks of life originally came from space. Meteorites containing amino acids have bombarded earth ever since the planet formed. And it was these amino acids which were the starting point for all life. Hunting for the origin of earth's water and life, the investigation has revealed that the water on earth arrived here inside meteorites. And meteorites also brought amino acids, the building blocks of life, to earth from space. [emphasis added]
SOURCE: National Geographic - Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey
That is preposterous! Do you really believe that all the 326,000,000,000,000,000,000 (326 quintillion) estimated gallons of water upon the earth came from outerspace? Do you believe all that water came to the earth one meteorite at a time? If you do, I feel sorry for you, because you are really gullible, unlearned and foolish. It is much more logical to believe the Holy Bible, which says in Genesis 1:1-2, âoeIn the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.â God created the universe and everything in it!
Is NASA covering up evidence of life on Mars? Thatâ(TM)s what University of Cardiff astrobiologist Chandra Wickramasinghe claims. You know, it is ridiculous (and really tragic) for millions of intelligent people to spend $100,000 to earn a university degree, and then come out of an institution of higher learning believing that NASA is hiding life on Mars. Go figure! Dr. Wickramasinghe has made many bizarre claims, which are nothing more than BAD SCIENCE. The âoeexpertsâ believe that all the water on earth came here over billions of years from colliding meteorites. I'd say that âoeYou couldn't make this stuff up!,â but that is exactly what unbelieving skeptics of the Word of God have done. Evolution is a cruel hoax! The insane theories of evolutionists are just that . . . INSANE THEORIES!!!
Isaiah 45:12, âoeI have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.â
Jeremiah 10:12, âoeHe hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.â
Jeremiah 27:5, âoeI have made the earth, the man and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.â
Jeremiah 51:15, âoeHe hath mad
I do suppose they got permission from all the copyright holders, including the notoriously litigious ones?
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
See subject: I had 100's of these (actually my Father did, he's read more varied material than anyone I've ever met) & this is all that remains of them. We'd pick them up for 25 cents each @ a used bookstore nearby. I know this for a fact, as the sticker is STILL on the issue (yellowed w/ age).
Periodicals like this one, alongside comic books (which were 1st for me when I was ~ 6 yrs. old or so) helped me build up a decent enough vocabulary to score 790 on my SAT verbal.
My dad was a smart guy who knew reading was a good thing to get into for kids & early.
(Due to collegiate academia mostly though, I 'graduated' into mostly TECHNICAL reading though from then on & never went back to "leisure reading" for enjoyment though - it is only "made up stuff" granted, but it builds a foundation to build upon imo).
The trick I suppose was getting me material I would keep on doing. They worked.
APK
P.S.=> I never REALLY 'regretted' the hours spent on reading these & others like them (though I do wish I'd had more 'drive' to dive into more "useful material" that's practical for living though back then - but imo, it can be as DRY AS TOAST & not as "fun" as sci-fi was - I'd probably never have stuck by it were it the other way around especially considering I was only a young boy)... apk
Ok I can understand scifi magazine, its written professionally and it's printed material thats worth keeping and re-reading well into the future but why soundcloud? soundcloud is full of amateur rubbish stuff. It's like archiving peoples facebook profiles.
See subject: I don't drool. I am not siphilitic. I am not a child molester. Stop now. I realize I must've really publicly destroyed you but I don't do that unless I am attacked 1st (like you are doing now). So You brought that on yourself.
* Yes, it's the reason you won't post using your "registered 'luser'" account & instead nigh-constantly harass me by UNIDENTIFIABLE "ne'er-do-well" anonymous posts...
(As you realize I've bookmarked every single time you've attacked me & I've torn you apart, probably under MANY fake account sockpuppets as well - get over it & grow up).
APK
P.S.=> Want to be angry @ someone? Look @ a mirror chump... lol! apk
I wish there was an archive of Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact, formerly Astounding. That one always seemed liked the thinking man's reader to me. The golden age for me was the 1950s through 1960s into the 1970s.
Murray Leinster, Christopher Anvil, Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov, Keith Laumer ... those were the days.
I'm not sure that this is news - I downloaded the first year or so of Galaxy from archive.org last November. The irritating thing is that the URLs don't follow a consistent pattern, so I couldn't just curl them to catch up with at my leisure.
This is great! Free the information!
See subject: I only post on hosts when they apply to help - they do NOT here. Get it UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous troll?
APK
P.S.=> Unbelievable - I want "your kind" to THINK about this (it is YOUR life after all):
If SOME of you "ne'er-do-well" do nothings spent time creating something like I did that speeds you up & protects vs. tracking/malware etc. (bad things online in general to a HUGE extent) WHICH I HAVE DONE EXTREMELY WELL WITH for something that was "just for a lark" FUN for me (vs. trolling me as you do thinking you're 'clever' (trust me - you're not))?
THEN you won't have wasted your time + the time of others along w/ space on this page & YOUR own lives trolling me!
Try being of service to others & the world in general as an overall "net good" instead of being pests + wastes of life - it works out well, I know... apk
See subject: Stop projecting your issues on me. Your attempt @ playing "SiDeWaLk ShRiNk" of /. failed UNIDENTIFIABLE ac troll!
APK
P.S.=> Unbelievable the depths "your kind" sinks to - especially DELUSIONS of Grandeur you have of being a doctor... apk