Star Trek warp drive is a possibility, say scientists, Mass-energy equivalence, Danger Bomb Clock, Sky survey yields new cosmic haul, Asteroid belt, Asteroid belt image, Kuiper belt, Milwaukee Polar Bear Club, Rosetta Disk Designed For 2,000 Years Archive, image of The Future, Very Long-Term Backup, Magnetic alignment in grazing and resting cattle and deer, What are Cow Magnets?, Death by Cow, Hydrogen Road Tour, Showcase Tour Of Hydrogen-Fueled Cars Stops In State

Joanne interviews Jay Sullivan, who distributes socio-political documentaries free of charge at the Union Square Subway Station in New York City.

Rocketboom Spotlight on The Archive, a film by Sean Dunne. Paul Mawhinney was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. Over the years he has amassed what has become the world’s largest record collection. Due to health issues and a struggling record industry Paul is being forced to sell his collection. This is the story of a man and his records. View the documentary in its entirety at http://www.vimeo.com/1546186

Karateka Video Game, Apple II, Commodore 64, Acorn Archimedes, Portal to Maya Underworld Found in Mexico?, Yucatán Peninsula, What Is Cryonics? A Brief Introduction, Wow. McCain is a schmuck…, McCain: Passed Over, Presidential era gas prices, Bush wants US oil production increased, pushes for more offshore drilling, Is E-Voting Safe?, Solar Panel Tie Can Charge Your Gadgets, the Arcade Ambience Project

Joanne speaks with James Powderly of Graffiti Research Lab upon his return to the United States after he was arrested and detained in Beijing last week while preparing to perform acts of civil disobedience by Students for a Free Tibet during the 2008 Summer Olympics. Related: Back from Beijing: Brian Conley

Joanne speaks with Alive in Baghdad’s Brian Conley upon his return to the United States after he was arrested and detained in Beijing last week for videotaping acts of civil disobedience by Students for a Free Tibet during the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Fusion Man!, Yves Rossy, Yves Rossy makes second jet-powered flight, World’s ‘oldest man’ dies in India, Habib Miyan, Intel brings wireless power closer to the mainstream, Nikola Tesla would be proud, Democratic National Convention in Denver, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, The Uptake, Political Lunch, Xbox 360 Providing Voter Registration via Xbox Live, Poor earning virtual gaming gold, Chinese Gold Farmers in WoW, WoW Gold Farming 101, Parents Let Kid Drop Out of High School to Focus on Guitar Hero, Auto Facial Attractiveness Enhancement Engine, Totally Looks Like Famous People and Celeb Look-A-Likes, Yassar Arafat, Richard Branson, China Deports Eight Americans

Joanne interviews Brian Conley of Alive in Baghdad (Brian Conley arrested this week and sentenced to 10 days detention in Beijing)

James Powderly of Graffiti Research Lab, Students for a Free Tibet, GRL L.A.S.E.R. Stencil, LED Throwies, LED Throwies II, L.A.S.E.R. Tag, Enter The Ghetto Matrix, A Timeline of Noel Hidalgo’s Arrest and Deportation from China, Journalist Deported after Filming Protest in Tiananmen Square , Alive in Baghdad, Brian Conley, Rocketboom Interview with Alive in Baghdad’s Brian Conley, 5 Americans Are Arrested for Protest in Beijing, China sentences 2 women to ‘re-education’ for seeking to protest, Beijing: Ethnic Park Protest - Aug. 13, 2008, Citizen Journalists, Videoblogger, Activists Detained, Beijing Police detain six foreigners for 10 days for upsetting public order

Joanne interviews Cheryl Furjanic, Producer and Director of Sync or Swim a documentary about the U.S. Synchronized Swimming Team’s journey to the 2004 Olympic Games.

Ivy Bean is the World’s Oldest Facebooker at 102, Edna Parker is the Oldest Person Alive at 115, The World’s Tallest Woman was Edna Parker’s neighbor, Jeanne Calment lived 122 years and 164 days, Timothy a Greek Tortoise lived to 160, Greenland sharks can live up to 200 years, Cinachyra antarctica sponge can live to 1,550 years, the Sacred Jaya Siri Maha Bodhi in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka is the oldest living human-planted tree, descended from the Bodhi Tree where Buddha became enlightened, Sacred Fig, Prometheus, a 5,000 year old Great Basin Bristlecone Pine was chopped down by a grad student in 1964, the Methuselah tree of California is still alive at 4839 years, the Old Tjikko tree in Sweden is 9,550 years old (via Science Daily), Pando, a Quaking Aspen in Utah may be 80,000 years old, Posidonia oceanica seagrass may be up to 100,000 years of age, the Hydrozoa species Turritopsis nutricula can cycle from mature adult back to a polyp

Fonzie Jumps The Shark, US hunters claim to have found Bigfoot, Spain to Grant Human Rights to Great Apes, Peter Fox: Alles Neu, Career Builder Ad With Monkeys, Gerald The Gorilla Sketch, Goatee Saver (via Curiobot), The Very Loud Fenstar Flying Military Robot, Bono Leaks U2 Tracks Online by Playing His Music Too Loud, Michael Phelps Won A Bunch of Stuff This Weekend, The 1/100th of a Second Conspiracy Site, The Time Travel Fund lets you Travel Into The Future in the Future

Joanne interviews David Mason of the Mobile Mini Circus for Children of Kabul, Afghanistan. MMCC is a non-profit organization staffed by local Afghan artists who organize educational programs and performances for children in a war torn Afghanistan. More videos of AfghanMMCC performances.

Allison Carrol is Lara Croft, World’s Smallest Burger, World’s Smallest Balloon, Bloody Serial Killer Shower Curtain , Styrofoam Dome Homes, eBay Slot Machines, The 10 Oddest City Names, GMail outage pours rain on Cloud Computing parade, Isaac Hayes - Shaft - live 1973 , Scientists Closer to Invisibility Cloak, John McCain, Kites could provide electricity for 100,000 homes, Lego Sushi Sculptures, McDonalds Visual Kidnapping, Chuck Norris Facts, Odd One Out, Rocketboom’s Andrew Baron to Speak at the Portable Film Festival, Google Streets: Now With Drunks And Fire!, Protest at Russian Embassy, Stella and the Speech Accent Archive, Twitter Fail Whale, U is for You, Beijing opening night lures 15 percent of world, The Beer Belt, Monster Segway, Rocketboom on YoutubeWhats up with pronouncing the letter Z as Zed?

Joanne interviews Charlie Todd of the prankster comedy group Improv Everywhere. Best Buy, Frozen Grand Central, Food Court Musical, Human Mirror

CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN in 3 minutes, Large Hadron Collider, Large Hadron Collider testing didn’t cause a black hole, Large Hadron Rap (thx, Alphaxion!), The Global Warming Rug Will Last 1000 Years, The US Army Wants to be Nearly One-Third Robotic by 2020, Tetra Vaal Robot Animation, Kid playing video games, more kids playing video games, Monty Mash, Bitchy Betty bitches for the world to change (thx, Stephanie!), Was the Montauk Monster Viral Marketing For a Movie?, Splinterheads The Movie, Splinterheads Tumblr Blog, Telephone Piano, Free Rocketboom t-shirt for the first person to figure out the Riddle of Stella!

Rocketboom Field Correspondent Steve Garfield interviews the Boston Typewriter Orchestra

NASA, Campaign Reveals Just a Little Bit of Coke’s Secret Formula, $100,000,000,000 bill from Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Faces 50 Million Percent Inflation, Uses Gasoline Coupons For Currency, The Zimbabwe Situation, Man Successfully Undergoes Double Arm Transplant, Goro, The Unofficial Mortal Kombat 3 Movie Page, MontyMash, Bodies in Urban Spaces via SwissMiss, Ian Usher, the guy who sold his life on eBay, Ian Usher wants to reach 100 Goals in 100 Weeks, Ian Usher Travels to Dubai, Matt Harding Dances at Yahoo

Rocketboom field correspondent Ruud Elmendorp profiles Sharif Osman, a Mombasa Camel Man or “beach boy” whose business has been hurt by tourists’ reluctance to visit Kenya after recent post-election violence. Previous Rocketboom coverage of the Kenyan election crisis: 1/8/08: Election Violence in Kenya, 1/16/08: Displaced Villagers in Nakruru, 1/16/08: Post Election Stress on Kenyan Markets, 1/23/08: Continued Coverage From Nairobi, 1/23/08: Kenya Crisis Continued, 2/13/08: 6,000 Refugees Seek Shelter Amid Continued Ethnic Violence, A Refugee In His Own Country, Kenya in Crisis page from the Rocketboom wiki, More stories by Ruud Elmendorp

Water Ice on Mars Confirmed by the Phoenix Mars Lander, White House Briefed About Life on Mars, Slashdot comments on the White House being briefed about life on Mars, Montauk Monster, What’s the Big Secret About Life on Mars?, Microscopy, Electrochemistry, and Conductivity Analyzer (MECA), Can MECA Detect Life on Mars or Not?

evolution vs. peanut butter, evolution vs. banana, laraque vs ivanans, bush vs. all people, bush standing vs bush standing, don imus vs. black people, geraldo vs. oreilly, mother vs. son, rumsfield vs. evidence, newt vs. spanish people, list of logical fallacies from the art of reason, post hoc, appeal to majority, appeal to force, appeal to authority, appeal to emotion, begging the question, diversion, non sequiter, subjectivism, straw man, false alternative, ad hominem, tu quoque, poisoning the well, appeal to ignorance, complex question

Rocketboom field correspondent Chuck Olsen of mnstories covers interactive toy sculpture artist Anastasia Ward

The Magic Number 30, The Airventure Airshow, of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, The Martin Jetpack, Aulophobia on Wikirage, The Celtic Football Club, of Glasgow, Scotland, The Rangers Football Club, also of Glasgow, Scotland, Aulophobia on Wikitionary, The PetPocket Bird Carrier, FriendFeed, Andrew Baron on Friendfeed, 1894 Film of Annie Oakley Shooting at Targets, Professor Kunihiko Takeda on “Hypocritical Ecology”

Rocketboom field correspondent Chuck Olsen covers the 3rd Annual Netroots Nation progressive politics conference in Austin, TX. Interviews with Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos, NYU Journalism professor Jay Rosen, Karl Frisch of Media Matters, and Irwin Tang author of Gook. For more coverage, visit TheUptake.org, Rocketboom coverage of last year’s conference.

Rocketboom special field correspondent Sarah Austin visits Comic-Con 2008 in San Diego, CA. Interviews with JJ Kirby and Michael Lopez of Wildstorm Comics, cosplayers, Shonen Jump, Bill Plympton, Ghostbusters, Rocketboy