The end of the world is just weeks away… again

If we're being honest, we're still not entirely sure why people bother to go on record forecasting the end of the world.

For a kick-off, history has shown us that every time someone has set a date for the apocalypse, they've been wrong. On top of this, there's the small matter of what happens if such a prediction proves to be correct: it's not as if there'll be any opportunity to say "I told you so". Despite all this, it's our duty to point out that some people with access to the internet are suggesting the end is nigh (yet again). As highlighted by an equally sceptical Independent, a number of reports have started to suggest that summer 2017 might well be our last.  Yet again, it seems that it's that bloody 'Planet X' that's set to fuck shit up for us Earthlings. The completely made up rogue planet was the subject of a book by David Meade, which predicted it would appear from absolutely nowhere this October, smashing our planet out of its orbit and killing us all in a matter of seconds. Although NASA have denied that such as planet even exists, it's not stopped some folk from looking for clues that the world's end is only a matter of weeks away. The arrival of Planet X - sometimes known as Nibiru - will apparently be preceded by some of the ten Biblical plagues. With that in mind, some are reading far too much into a swarm of locusts that landed in southern Russia earlier this week, completely ignoring the fact that this is an annual occurrence. Along with this, the Independent go on to point out that the solar eclipse that's set to be seen across the US on August 21 has also been taken by some as a sign that Planet Earth's goose is cooked. Although there's nothing to suggest an eclipse has ever killed anyone, let alone the entire population of the planet, some cultures have feared them as being a sign that something bad is about to happen. We can say with absolute confidence that the world is not about to end any time soon. If it does, we'll happily hold up our hands and acknowledge our mistake.