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Andrew Chen Mediocre Writer
I lounge on my sofa and open the TV, at once I am met with an urgent news report: “BREAKING NEWS! 2 hours ago, the sun has been showing very strange patterns and scientists have reported that it has exploded just now. This gives us 8 minutes before we are dead. AHHH!!”
I fall off my sofa and curse my luck. I set an alarm for 8 minutes and then I rush out of the living room
7 minutes left

【回答】平庸的作家
我懒洋洋地躺在沙发上打开电视，立刻就看到一则紧急新闻“突发新闻！两小时前，太阳表现出非常奇怪的活动，科学家报告说，太阳刚刚爆炸了。我们还有8分钟就要死了。啊啊啊！！”
我从沙发上摔下来，咒骂着自己的霉运，我设定了8分钟的闹钟，然后冲出了客厅。
还剩7分钟

The world outside is mayhem; burning houses, gunshots and overall anarchy. I bolt my door and retreat to my room. Then, I gather all my necessities and proceed to the kitchen. From there, I stuff my entire cupboard into my bag. This time I don’t get any cookie crumbs on my bag. 5 minutes left
After my bags are packed to the brim, I run downstairs to my basement. Then I proceed to bolt the door with anything I can find: a bookshelf, a table, my bag.
Finally, I sit down on the ground and wait. And wait. And wait…1 minute left
I hear a loud “boom” and suddenly the air around me gets colder. I try to turn on the heater but there isn't any electricity. So I put on an extra layer of clothing. After a few hours, it gets unbearably cold and I’ve run out of clothes to wear. Sensing the inevitable, I leave my basement with a flashlight and try to find a heat source.

外面的世界一片混乱：燃烧的房子，枪声四起，整个社会陷入混乱。我锁上门，回到自己的房间。然后，我收拾好所有的必需品，走向厨房。在那里，我把整个橱柜的东西塞进我的包里。这次我的包里不会有饼干屑了。
还剩5分钟
我的行李打包好后，我跑到楼下的地下室。然后我继续用任何我能找到的东西栓上门：一个书架，一张桌子，我的包。
最后，我坐在地上等待。静静等待着...
还剩1分钟
我听到一声巨响，周围的空气突然变冷了。我试着打开暖气，但是没有电。所以我多穿了一层衣服。几个小时后，温度变得冷得难以忍受，我已经没有衣服可穿了。意识到这是不可避免的情况，我带着手电筒离开了我的地下室，试图找到一个热源。
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I turn on a flashlight and continue outside. The streets are coated in a layer of ice and snow and it is well below the freezing level.
After walking for a few minutes, my legs give way due to the cold and I lay on the ground, hoping that this was yet another dream…
Andrew

我打开手电筒，继续往外走。街道上覆盖着一层冰雪，远低于冰点。
走了几分钟后，我的双腿因为寒冷而瘫倒了，我躺在地上，希望这只是另外一个梦...
——安德鲁
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Rising Phoenix tried writing a short story
I hear a loud voice booming in my head saying ”YOU HAVE EIGHT MINUTES TO LIVE”
My eyes snap open to find a ceiling above me. I slowly breathe to calm myself down.
It was only a dream.
I slowly get up and look around as my eyes starting focusing. I am in my room and there’s nothing out of the ordinary.
As I turn my head to look out of the window, I notice the sun unusually bright today. Weird, looks like I managed to wake up before sunset.
As I am contemplating my messed up sleep schedule, The sun seems to be getting bigger by the second. I look carefully to be sure and yes, the sun is indeed getting bigger.
I don’t really have the energy to freak out or panic, So I grab my phone and set the timer for 7 minutes. I get out of bed and make my way to the kitchen.

【回答】努力写一篇短篇小说
我突然听到脑海里响起一个巨大的声音“你只有八分钟的生命了”
我睁开眼睛，发现头顶上是天花板。我慢慢地呼吸，让自己平静下来。
那只是一场梦。
当我的眼睛开始聚焦时，我慢慢地站起来环顾四周。我在我的房间里，没有什么不寻常的事情。
当我转过头看向窗外时，我注意到今天的阳光异常明亮。真奇怪，看起来我在日落前就醒了。
当我在思考我混乱的睡眠时间表时，太阳似乎一秒钟就变大了。我仔细观察确定了，是的，太阳确实在变大。
我没有精力去惊慌失措，所以我拿起我的手机，设置了7分钟的计时器。我下了床，走向厨房。

I see my parents on the way and say Good morning and give them both a hug. No point making them worry. As I make my way to the kitchen, I hope that it’s a painless death.
I make myself a Nutella sandwich, I mean who doesn’t want to die eating a Nutella sandwich and then make my way back to my room.
I sit down and look at the sun, which is already covering up more than 50% of the sky.
I already tell my parents I love them everyday, so no point doing it now. All my friends know how much they mean to me, no point calling them and wasting time.
As I eat my Nutella sandwich, I close my eyes and do a silent prayer to god, thanking him for my life, thanking him for my wonderful parents and lovely friends and for my healthy body and sharp mind.

我看到了我的父母，我说早上好，并给他们一个拥抱。没必要让他们担心。在我去厨房的路上，我希望这是一次无痛苦的死亡。
我给自己做了一个榛果可可酱三明治，我的意思是谁不想死前吃榛果可可酱三明治呢。然后回到我的房间。
我坐下来看着太阳，太阳已经覆盖了超过一半的天空。
我已经每天都告诉我的父母我爱他们，所以现在再这样做也没有意义。我所有的朋友都知道他们对我有多重要，没必要打电话给他们浪费时间了。
我吃着我的三明治，闭上了眼睛，默默地向上帝祈祷，感谢他给了我生命，感谢他给了我很棒的父母和可爱的朋友，感谢他给了我健康的身体和敏锐的思想。
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After I am done thanking him, I think about the few regrets I have in life.The one time I didn’t confess to my crush. The times I didn’t study for my exams and for the times I spent gaming or wasting my time.
As I go through my memories, I relax and forgive myself for those mistakes, after all, no point beating myself up over them. Won’t it be better to make amends with myself.
I thought about the good times that I spent with my crush just having fun and the times I made some good friends over games. The times I failed cus of not studying and learnt that there’s more to life than just marks and exams.
The times I spent with friends just chatting and goofing around. The late nights we spent outside, only to return back home in the morning. The fun times with my family and the crazy things I did with my siblings.

在我感谢完上帝之后，我想到了我生命中为数不多的遗憾。有一次是我没有向我的暗恋对象告白。有几次我没有为了考试而学习，有些时候我花时间玩游戏或者浪费时间。
当我回顾自己的记忆时，我放松下来，原谅自己所犯的错误，毕竟，没有必要为此责备自己。向自己道歉不是更好吗。
我想起了我和我的恋人一起度过的美好时光，还有那些在游戏里交到一些好朋友的时光。因为不学习而失败的时候，我明白了生活不仅仅是分数和考试。
我和朋友们一起闲聊瞎逛的时光。我们在外面熬夜，第二天早上才回家。和家人在一起的快乐时光，和我的兄弟姐妹一起做的疯狂的事情。

My face breaks into a slow smile and my body starts relaxing. It feels much better to think about the good memories and fun times rather than the regrets. I smile and feel lighter knowing that I have made peace with my regrets and closing death.
As I am doing so, I suddenly open my eyes and reach out for my phone. No way I m dying without listening to some good music. Not having time to decide, I open youtube and click a playlist(it was my workout playlist), and sext a random song.
Imagine going to heaven with this playing as your background music. Or hell, would still be pretty cool.

我的脸慢慢的微笑，我的身体开始放松。想想美好的回忆和快乐的时光，比想想遗憾的事情要好得多。我微笑着，感觉更轻松了，因为我已经平静地面对了我的遗憾和死亡。
当我这样做的时候，我突然睁开眼睛，伸手去拿我的手机。不听点好听的音乐我是不能死的。没有时间做决定了，我打开了油管，点击一个播放列表(这是我的锻炼音乐列表) ，然后随机选择一首歌。
想象一下，用这首歌作为你的背景音乐然后去天堂。或者地狱，仍然会很酷的。

Istrate Ioan about the sun and stuff
Damn…. that sucks……
Ahhhhhh what could I do in the last 8 minutes of my life……
Message the persons I know and say sorry for everything bad I’ve done to them? I don’t think so. That for the simple reason that nobody would read the messages in time and tbh it’s not really worth it.
Pray? I don’t believe in any Creator deity, let alone the fact that it’s going to save us
Contemplate about the past? What’s the point? I’m gonna die anyway lol
I have 2 options:
1 I have my skateboard around me and I can get a cigarette in less than 1 minute.
In this case I'll play my favorite songs in the headphones for the last minutes of my life while smoking a cigarette and riding the skateboard I’m not even a smoker but hey, I’m not gonna get lung cancer in a few minutes).

【回答】
卧槽... 糟透了..
啊啊...在我生命的最后8分钟里，我能做些什么。
给我认识的人发短信，为我对他们做的所有坏事道歉？我不这么认为。原因很简单，就是没有人会及时阅读这些信息，所以这么做不值得。
祈祷？我不相信任何造物主之神，更不用说它会来拯救我们了。
沉思过去？有什么意义呢？反正我都要死了，哈哈。
我有两个选择：
1、我身边有滑板，我可以在一分钟内拿到一支香烟。
在这种情况下，我会在生命的最后几分钟用耳机播放我最喜欢的歌曲，边抽烟边玩滑板。其实我甚至不抽烟，但是，嘿，我不会在几分钟内得肺癌的。

2 My skateboard is 30 kilometers away from me and it’s no fucking way I can get a cigarette.
I’ll just watch an episode of the Eric Andre show/Filthy Frank/Michael Reeves.
8th minute: wait It takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds for the sunlight to reach the Earth; I can’t die knowing that I haven’t finished the episode….

2、我的滑板离我有30公里远，我他妈根本没办法抽根烟。
我就看一集埃里克·安德烈秀/肮脏的弗兰克/迈克尔·里维斯。
第8分钟：等待阳光到达地球需要8分20秒；我不能死去，因为我还没有看完一集...

Alexis Burke Cashier at Boutiques (2020-present)
I wake up to hear my alarm, turning it off only to hear sirens. I rub my eyes, slowly walking to the window. Everyone is in panic.
I walk over, turning my tv on straight to the news channel.
“The world as we know it, is about to come to an end”… “Detection of dangerously large heat waves are bursting from the sun”… “I’m afraid it is the end… by certain theories, we have guessed to only have eight mi..ut- lef-”
My eyes widen.
Terrified, I look out of the window… the heat is extremely intense, as I look up only to see odd changes in the atmosphere.
Finally wrapping my head around it I dash to find my family, hugging them all as I hold my kitten in my arms.
Sobbing as we hold each other close, praying to whatever God may be up there.

【回答】
我听到我的闹钟然后醒来了，把它关掉却听到了警笛声。我揉揉眼睛，慢慢地走到窗前。每个人都惊慌失措。
我走过去，把电视直接打开到新闻频道。
“我们所知道的世界即将结束”，“探测到危险的大热浪正从太阳那里爆发出来”，“恐怕这是末日了... 根据某些理论，我们猜测只有8分..z.h... ”
我瞪大了眼睛。
我惊恐万分，朝窗外看去... 天气异常炎热，我抬头能看到空气中奇怪的变化。
最后，我把小猫抱在怀里，冲向了我的家人，拥抱他们。
我们紧紧拥抱在一起，哭泣着，向天上的上帝祈祷。

Suddenly the sirens are blaring loudly, distress is in the room.
I look at my family, hugging them all once more as I smile. Wiping their tears away, thanking them for the life they gave me.
I slowly close my eyes… suddenly the sun exploding… engulfing the Earth.
A hush over the universe…
Everything mankind has worked for. Everything men, and women have literally killed for.
Gone within seconds.

突然警报器响了起来，房间里充满了悲伤。
我看着我的家人，微笑着再次拥抱他们。擦干眼泪，感谢他们给予我的生命。
我慢慢地闭上眼睛... 突然太阳爆炸了... 吞没了整个地球。
整个宇宙一片寂静...
所有人类为之努力奋斗的一切，所有人类为之互相杀戮的一切。
在几秒钟之内就消失殆尽了。

Justin Rodrigo studies at Loyola Jesuit College (2022)
Ok, so let’s establish some things:
* The sun will explode in 8 minutes
* I do not have a time turner
* I have access to internet, phones, etc
* Anyone I want to contact will answer immediately.
* I am alone at home (I mean, I can’t have everyone hearing what I wanna say)
Bases on these assumptions, I will….
First minute:
* Run around screaming because I won’t believe that the world is about to end in 8 minutes. I mean, this is not how I expected to go out.
Second minute:
* Finally accept that I will die in 7 minutes.
* Grab a phone and finally tell my crush everything.
* End the call because I’m to scared to listen to anything she has to say.
* Restart the call to hear everything because I’m gonna die anyway
Third minute:

【回答】在洛约拉耶稣会学院学习(2022年)
好的，让我们来确定一些事情：
* 太阳会在八分钟后爆炸
* 我没有时间机器
* 我可以使用互联网、电话等
* 任何我想联系的人都会立即接电话。
* 我一个人在家(我是说，我不能让每个人都听到我想说的话)
基于这些假设，我会...
第一分钟：
* 尖叫着跑来跑去，因为我不相信世界会在八分钟内毁灭。我的意思是，这不是我想要的结局。
第二分钟:
* 我最终接受了我将在7分钟内死去的事实。
* 拿起电话，告诉我的爱人所有一切。
* 挂掉电话，因为我不敢听她说话。
* 重新打电话，听完所有一切，反正我横竖都要死了。
第三分钟：

* Call my entire family and tell them I love them and all those stuff (It feels weird typing it)
Fourth minute - Sixth minute:
* Tell all my Quora friends goodbye. I do not want it to be weird though.
Seventh minute - Eighth minute:
* Put everything in order to meet God.
^^^^I hope my end is something like that^^^^
Last few seconds:
* Sleep

* 打电话给我所有的家人，跟他们说，我爱他们和所有一切(打字怎么感觉怪怪的)
第四分钟-第六分钟:
* 跟我所有的Quora朋友说再见，我不希望这又变得怪怪的。
第七分钟-第八分钟:
* 把一切都放下，迎接上帝。
我希望我生命的结束就是这样。
最后几秒：
* 睡觉

Magne Matre Gåsland Hypothesizer and armchair philosopher
It's pretty astounding that it would be possible to look at the sun and see it as normal, when it has in fact exploded. And there would be no way of knowing it had exploded during those 8 minutes before you see the explosion. Since even if sensors close to the sun picked it up, they couldn't transmit the information faster than the light of the explosion itself, which is (naturally) already travelling at the speed of light.
What if the sun has already exploded, due to some unforeseen cosmical event, and you won't find out until 8 minutes? You'll treat the next 8 minutes as mundane as any other. Probably waste them. How fatefully ironic and sad. Unless you're spending every minute as if it already was one of those 8 minutes, of course..
BOOM!

【回答】假想家和空想的哲学家
相当令人震惊的是，我们可以看到正常的太阳，但实际上它已经爆炸了。而且在你看到爆炸之前的8分钟里，根本不可能知道太阳已经爆炸了。因为即使靠近太阳的传感器能够捕捉到它了，它们也不能以比爆炸本身更快的光速传递信息，而爆炸本身(自然)已经在以光速传播了。
如果太阳已经爆炸了，由于一些不可预见的宇宙事件，你直到8分钟后才会知道。所以接下来的8分钟，你会像其他日常生活一样度过。可能会浪费这些时间。多么讽刺和悲哀。当然，除非你把每一分钟都当成是那8分钟中的一分钟来度过...
砰!

Greg Brecht Writer, Floridian, Adjunct professor, Liberal.
It’s easy to consider this question as a kind of fun thought experiment.
But reality is, the sun goes out for all of us at some point, and eight minutes may be a lot longer than most people have.
Me, I’d tell my baby that I love her and that she’s my date for the pearly gates. If I were with her, we’d hold each other and probably cry. If I weren’t with her, I’ll remember flashes of the good things—my first sight of a bluebird, a picnic in a field of blue flowers high in the Rockies in a Colorado summer, drowsing off with a cat named Jack in the crook of my arm, the pleasure in good work well done, my Mom’s smile, a few times laughing my head off with friends. And my baby’s arms around me.
I know that probably sounds naive.

【回答】作家，佛罗里达人，兼职教授，自由主义者。
这个问题很容易被认为是一个有趣的思想实验。
但现实是，对我们所有人类来说太阳总有一天都会熄灭，而8分钟的时间可能比大多数人拥有的要长得多。
我，我会告诉我的宝贝，我爱她，她是我进天国之门的伴侣。如果我和她在一起，我们会抱在一起，可能还会哭。如果我没有和她在一起，我会记得那些美好事物的瞬间——我第一次看到的蓝知更鸟，在科罗拉多州的一个夏天，在落基山脉高高的蓝色花丛中野餐，一只名叫杰克的猫在我臂弯里打盹，出色完成工作后的开心，我妈妈的微笑，几次和朋友一起笑得不可开交。还有，我的宝贝用手臂抱着我。
我知道这听起来很天真。

Quora User
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.
In those 8 minutes, I could contemplate mortality, but I have nothing else profound to add to that, and nothing new to think about.
In those 8 minutes, I would do nothing different; just keep on keepin' on.
Well, I'd maybe do one thing. Smoke 'em if you've got 'em.

【回答】
正如我们所知，这就是世界末日，我感觉很好。
在这8分钟里，我可以思考死亡，但我没有其他深刻的东西可以补充，也没有什么新的东西需要思考。
在这8分钟里，我不会做任何不同的事情，只是照常。
好吧，我可能会做一件事，如果你有烟的话，就抽吧。

Ben Fraser Top Writer, 2014 & 2015 answers, 2016 questions
I'd climb into my lead-lined exploding-sun vault ($150,000, walls 2 meters thick, of lead) and wait it out while I made a few phone calls. Of course, all the phone lines would be jammed. I'd have to content myself by writing out my love to my family and friends on my Quora Blog.
Now, radiation from the sun exploding wouldn't linger like nuclear radiation does;
After all the gamma rays and microwaves have gone I would have about an hour before the massive hurricanes and tornados began; as the atmosphere no longer has a heat source, it must now rearrange itself, violently.
After that, the planet is now a ball of ice. Not great. Survival in caves that go deep into the Earth's crust are the only option. Of course, most people only had 8 minutes sooooo hardly anyone made it to the caves.

【回答】
我会爬进我的铅制防爆金库(价值15万美元，墙壁有2米的厚度，由铅制成) ，等着太阳爆炸的结束，同时我会打几个电话。当然，所有的电话线路都会被占的。我必须通过我的Quora博客上向我的家人和朋友表达我的爱。
现在，太阳爆炸产生的辐射不会像核辐射那样持续存在；
在所有的伽马射线和微波消失之后，在巨大的飓风和龙卷风开始之前，我有大约一个小时的时间；由于大气层不再有热源，它现在必须用粗暴的方式重新调整自己。
在那之后，地球就会变成了一个冰球。不太好。在深入地壳的洞穴中生存是唯一的选择。当然，大多数人只有8分钟的时间，所以几乎没有人能到达洞穴。

Ed Caruthers Retired physicist and technology developer, widower, age 73
As others have said, if you are facing the sun, then when you see the explosion, the explosion is reaching you. The light might reach you slightly faster than the atmospheric shock wave. But if the sun is really exploding, then you are toast as soon as the light hits you.
As George Gonzalez said, if it's dark you might see the moon get very bright while the earth shields you from direct radiation.

【回答】退休的物理学家和技术开发人员，鳏夫，73岁
正如其他人所说的，如果你面对太阳，那么当你看到爆炸时，爆炸已经到来了。光可能比大气冲击波到达你的速度稍快一点。但是如果太阳真的爆炸了，那么当光线照射到你的时候，你就完了。
正如乔治 · 冈萨雷斯所说，如果是晚上，你可能会看到月亮变得非常明亮，而地球会保护你免受直接的辐射。

Geoff Smith MSc Scientist, Ordnance Society
When I was at school, it was generally accepted that we could expect four minutes warning of a nuclear attack. We debated the problem of how to spend our last four minutes and achieved unanimous agreement.
Then someone posed the question ‘What do you do if after three minutes, it is a false alarm?’
Only one thing to do. Apologise to the lady.
Please excuse the dreams of teenage boys.

【回答】军械协会科学家
当我还在学校读书的时候，人们普遍都认为，我们可能会在四分钟内会收到核攻击的警告。我们讨论了如何度过最后四分钟的问题，然后达成了一致的意见。
然后某人提出了这样的问题“但是如果三分钟后发现是错误的警报，你会怎么办呢? ”
所以只有一件事要做。向这位老师道歉。
请原谅十几岁男孩的梦想。

Lars Christensen Junior Software Developer at Getinge Group (2019-present)
I have a beer in my fridge for these sort of apocalyptic occasions.
So if I get a warning of any sort, then I’ll grab that, pop it open and ask my Google Home to play “Highway to Hell” with ACDC. Then sit on my sofa, put on some shades and enjoy the show.
I’m a simple guy, what can I say. :D

【回答】洁定集团的软件开发人员(2019年至今)
我冰箱里有一瓶啤酒，可以应付这种世界末日的场合。
所以，如果我收到任何类型的警告，我会握住它然后打开，接着在我的谷歌主页播放ACDC的“地狱高速公路”。坐在我的沙发上，戴上墨镜，欣赏音乐。
我是一个简单的人，我能说什么呢。:D
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George Gonzalez studied at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
You won't see the Sun explode until the explosion reaches you.
Now you might at night see the Moon flare up in intensity, telling you that the Sun has flared or exploded, and that gives you a few hours until sunrise or until the atmospheric shock wave hits you. I'd probably go buy a gallon of ice-cream.

【回答】曾就读于明尼苏达大学双城分校
你不会看到太阳爆炸的，直到你感受到爆炸。
现在，在晚上你可能会看到月亮突然变亮，告诉你太阳已经爆发或爆炸，这给了你几个小时，直到日出或直到大气冲击波击中你。我可能会去买一加仑的冰淇淋来吃。