ExitMundi.nl
Exit Mundi is a website with a collection of end of the world articles. The writing mixes scientific analyses and theories of apocalyptic scenarios with dark sardonic humor relating to the end of times.
Exit Mundi started out in 2001, and is written and maintained by a Dutch science journalist. "Some people collect postal stamps; Exit Mundi collects scenarios of what could go wrong with the world", he states. And: "Exit Mundi isn't in it for doom preaching, but strictly for fun. It's a fascinating thought: if that &*%#-comet didn't wipe out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, we wouldn't be here pondering about apocalypses and armageddons in the first place." The website got a lot of media attention in 2003, when a group of fanatics from the US claimed Earth was about to be destroyed by a huge planet dubbed Planet X. Exit Mundi studied the claim and traced the story back to its origins: a hotchpotch of misinterpreted ancient texts, outdated views from 19th century astronomy and outrageous claims from the realm of pseudo-science. "So, Planet Ex?", Exit Mundi concludes. "You guessed it. If they ever start telling you about Planet-X, laugh your wits off. Don’t take any precautions – there’s no need. Planet X doesn’t exist. Never has. Never will. Off with you, Nibiru. Shoo."
After that, the website got much attention after the Asian tsunami, the flooding of New Orleans and the threatening rise of bird flu. "What's bad news for the world, seems to be good news for the statistics of my site", Exit Mundi's maker remarked in a radio interview.
Articles
The current run of articles as of November 3, 2005 is as follows:
- Meteor impact
- Planet X comes around Earth
- The Moon being destroyed
- Nemesis smashes into Earth
- Gl-710 collides with Earth
- A Black Hole consumes the Earth
- A gamma-ray burst occurs in our part of the galaxy
- Aliens invade our planet
- A rock from the Kuiper Belt smashes into us
- The south pole and the north pole change alignment
- The Earth enters a Giant Molecular Cloud
- The Sun burns out
- The Big Crunch happens
- The Big Expansion occurs
- The Big Rip happens
- We enter the Big Crumble
- The core of the Earth cools down
- A disease epidemic
- An Ice Age
- A tsunami comes crashing
- A supervolcano erupts
- The Verneshot phenomenon happens
- The human race goes into mass insanity
- The invasion of female gender kills the male chromosome
- Evolution will make humans nonexistent
- We become cyborgs
- An oil peak happens
- Global warming takes its toll
- The earth becomes polluted
- Terrorists do us in
- The nanotech gray goo converts all of Earth
- Bioweapons kill us
- A nuclear war happens
- Robots destroy humanity
- Cats will kill us
- We find out we are nothing but a dream of a god
- Mass impotence
- A demographic meltdown occurs
- A quantum vacuum collapse comes in our time
- We mishandle quantum energy
- We get some strange matter into our reality
- The Christian Apocalypse comes
- Kalki slaughters humanity
- The Islam Apocalypse bears fruit
- On December 21st 2012, according to the Maya, we should cease to exist
- Ragnarok occurs
- Zarathushtra batters humanity
- Flesh eating zombies come out of Hell