Most everyone has either seen or heard about the 1998 Summer blockbuster, Armageddon. Could it actually be possible for an asteroid that large to hit the Earth and destroy all life as we know it? Believe it or not, we are currently dodging (by a million miles or so) a rock (2.9 miles long and 1.5 miles wide) that, if impacted with Earth, could cause global devastation. Click here to read the story.

Ever have an idea that you thought could change the world...or at least the world around you? Was cash flow a main hinderance that kept the idea from happening? Ideas Happen is a program that is offering $25,000 to people with the best ideas, to help them reach their goal. There are three catagories to pitch your idea in. You have until October 20, 2004, to do this. Go to Ideas Happen and pitch your idea. Log on, present your idea, and you could be the next winner of $25,000 to help you achieve what you think could change your world.

Recently an email has been rapidly making the rounds that states that the Bush Administration is reinstating the draft in 2005. This has been confirmed as an urban legend, which is loosely based on current pending legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, but is expected to fail by a very wide margin, according to many experts within the military and U.S. government. Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, the senior Democrat on the Senate Armed Services personnel subcommittee [...]: "There is very little support in Congress for reinstating the draft." "It ain't going to happen," said Lawrence Korb, a former assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration who is now with the Center for American Progress, a

Semo.net recently hosted a FBI lecture in Poplar Bluff about current Internet based security threats that business face today. Along with area businesses the DAR was there to report, check out what they have to say here.

A group of European-led astronomers has made a photograph of what appears to be a planet orbiting another star. If so, it would be the first confirmed picture of a world beyond our solar system. Article from space.com

"Forbes is running a report saying that Intel's CTO claims that the WWW is 'running up on some architectural limitations' that will eventually cause its downfall. He said the Internet will begin to collapse as millions of new computer users from developing nations begin to sign on. Forbes Article