The sun has exploded and the Earth will be destroyed. What would you do with the last 8 minutes of your life?

Somehow everything we thought we knew about stars was wrong. How could we have been so wrong?! This can't be happening! I mean, this literally cannot be happening. We were supposed to have 4-5 billion years, what the hell happened?! How did no one see this coming? Weren't there signs? Is this some sort of conspiracy to destroy all of humanity by purposely misleading us into thinking we have knowledge concerning the births and deaths of stars? Is all of astronomy wrong? Jesus, I'm about to die! I should call somebody. My parents? The rest of my family? There are so many things I wanted to do! For fucks sake, I'm an astrophysics major, this is precisely the sort of shit I should know something about. I'm not even good at sex yet. I've never loved anyone, never finished anything in my life, never made my mark on the universe. I'm about to die. Holy fuck and I don't follow any religions. Wow I hope there's no hell. Wait, you know what, fuck that! I've never hurt anybody, never done an unforgivable wrong. I'm a good person, dammit. If god or whatever wants to throw me in a lake of fire because I didn't believe his silly fucking book then fuck that guy! I'm an alright dude! That bastard is going to destroy what is possibly the only sentient race in the galaxy? Why the hell did he even create us? Humanity has so much untapped potential! We have an entire playground made out of stars and planets, and we waited on this stupid rock to blow up? We dropped the ball. Fuck, I'm about to die. Should I call someone? Will it matter? Pretty soon we won't even be matter. HA! Fuckin Men in Black! That's what I should be doing right now. Any time now. Will it be instantaneous, or will I see it coming right before my end? Who cares, I'm not going to remember it anyway. Shit that's depressing. I guess I could have died any number of ways and it never would have mattered, huh? I at least wish I could have ch-

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