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gonna die!? This Dutch Web site takes an almost demented glee in the various infinitely disturbing ways in which this fragile orb on which we reside could become barren, waterlogged, cracked or just flat-out cosmic debris. Along the way we meet bad dates with black holes; mass sterility; comet, meteor or asteroid strikes; hothouse effects; nano-carnivores, and even a zombiegeddon. Aim for the head! But wait, there's more! With a lively, tongue-in-cheek patter that annotates each calamity with links to more source material and conveniently categorized by type of cataclysm, the site offers hours upon end on the end of all we hold so dear, and dearly love to abuse.
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recorded the double cd Exit Mundi, with ten scenarios from the German translation of Exit Mundi. At the release of the cd, Bela B. did a 15 location-tour with the Exit Mundi cd through
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Has the constant threat of heightened security warnings, bird flu, global warming or dirty bombs lost the ability to keep you unblinkingly awake until the disquieting calm of dawn's early light? How about a side trip to the darkened corners of the
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It is called "Exit Mundi" and offers a list of extinction-level events that can blink us out of existence even before Bush or Bin Laden get around to doing the job. It goes on to mention Earth tilt, moon smash, sun shift, air poison, temperature reversal, cosmic mastication, quantum energy blasts,
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Exit Mundi, literally meaning Exit World, is a somewhat morbid, yet highly entertaining site based in the
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Exit Mundi has a similar intent, examining the various ways the word "human" could become past tense, from the very big bang (large object crashes into Earth) to the very little bang (mankind suffers slow anticlimax of sperm death). It's a fascinating and often funny site but, again, it's short on
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As time passed, Keulemans kept on collecting more and more scenarios, aided by a growing number of devoted Exit Mundi fans. His mix of sardonic humor and scientific correctness gave the website cult status. The website got many good reviews on- and offline, in magazines as diverse as
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Keulemans launched the website in 2001 strictly for fun. In several interviews, he points out that the main reason for launching the site was that as a professional science journalist, he came across many apocalyptic scenarios, ranging from well-known disasters like
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articles. The writing mixes scientific analyses and theories of apocalyptic scenarios with dark humour relating to the end of times. Theories presented cover a range of possible sources of human demise. The site is based in the
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