39-516: (Redirected from Earth-2 ) Earth 2 may refer to: Earth 2 (TV series) , 1994–1995 American science fiction television series Earth II , a 1971 American science fiction television pilot Earth II , a 2022 American collage film by the Anti-Banality Union Earth 2 (album) , 1993 album by drone metal band Earth In the fictional universe of DC Comics: Earth-Two ,
78-407: A star system tend to be small fractions of a light-year, and are usually expressed in astronomical units . However, smaller units of length can similarly be formed usefully by multiplying units of time by the speed of light. For example, the light-second , useful in astronomy, telecommunications and relativistic physics, is exactly 299 792 458 metres or 1 / 31 557 600 of
117-486: A unit of time . The light-year is most often used when expressing distances to stars and other distances on a galactic scale, especially in non-specialist contexts and popular science publications. The unit most commonly used in professional astronomy is the parsec (symbol: pc, about 3.26 light-years). As defined by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the light-year
156-518: A card explaining that the trailers attached to the end of some episodes would not match the corrected play order. Netflix in the United States streamed the episodes in production order. Three Earth 2 novels were published between December 1994 and May 1995. The first was a novelization of the two-part premiere. The remaining two were original stories. Light-year A light-year , alternatively spelled light year ( ly or lyr ),
195-412: A light-year. Units such as the light-minute, light-hour and light-day are sometimes used in popular science publications. The light-month, roughly one-twelfth of a light-year, is also used occasionally for approximate measures. The Hayden Planetarium specifies the light month more precisely as 30 days of light travel time. Light travels approximately one foot in a nanosecond ; the term "light-foot"
234-456: A man named Gaal who claims to be an astronaut but is revealed as a marooned criminal; when it is revealed that G889 had been used for many years as a penal colony, questions arise as to the motivations of the Council and their right to do so. In "Redemption", the group encounters a genetically enhanced killer called Z.E.D., who was left on the planet to dispose of all the humans he finds, who at
273-589: A parallel world in the DC Multiverse; the home of DC's Golden Age heroes JLA: Earth 2 , a graphic novel about another alternate Earth in the DC Universe Earth analog , a planet similar to Earth Planet Earth II , 2016 UK TV documentary series Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Earth 2 . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
312-531: A small creature that True had been nurturing. The advance team find that G889 is inhabited by subterranean dwelling natives called Terrians who communicate with Alonzo through dreams. Uly is captured and taken underground by the Terrians but Devon brokers a deal and Uly is returned, healed and healthy. The series premiered on November 6, 1994, with a two-hour pilot episode ("Earth 2: First Contact") that ran from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. EST (including advertisements—it
351-560: Is "ly", International standards like ISO 80000:2006 (now superseded) have used "l.y." and localized abbreviations are frequent, such as "al" in French, Spanish, and Italian (from année-lumière , año luz and anno luce , respectively), "Lj" in German (from Lichtjahr ), etc. Before 1984, the tropical year (not the Julian year) and a measured (not defined) speed of light were included in
390-402: Is a unit of length used to express astronomical distances and is equal to exactly 9 460 730 472 580 .8 km , which is approximately 5.88 trillion mi. As defined by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a light-year is the distance that light travels in vacuum in one Julian year (365.25 days). Despite its inclusion of the word "year", the term should not be misinterpreted as
429-533: Is an odd name. In 1868 an English journal labelled the light-year as a unit used by the Germans. Eddington called the light-year an inconvenient and irrelevant unit, which had sometimes crept from popular use into technical investigations. Although modern astronomers often prefer to use the parsec , light-years are also popularly used to gauge the expanses of interstellar and intergalactic space. Distances expressed in light-years include those between stars in
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#1732783085181468-494: Is not acknowledged by the government and medical community. It is theorized that this disease, which affects only children, is somehow caused by the lack of an Earth-like environment. Most children who are born with the disease do not live past the age of nine. Desperate to save her son, Devon puts together a group who will pioneer the effort to settle a planet 22 light-years away from Earth, on which other families with members thus afflicted can settle. The eventual colonization of
507-570: Is the product of the Julian year (365.25 days, as opposed to the 365.2425-day Gregorian year or the 365.24219-day Tropical year that both approximate) and the speed of light ( 299 792 458 m/s ). Both of these values are included in the IAU (1976) System of Astronomical Constants , used since 1984. From this, the following conversions can be derived: The abbreviation used by the IAU for light-year
546-598: Is the product of the J1900.0 mean tropical year and the defined speed of light. Abbreviations used for light-years and multiples of light-years are: The light-year unit appeared a few years after the first successful measurement of the distance to a star other than the Sun, by Friedrich Bessel in 1838. The star was 61 Cygni , and he used a 160-millimetre (6.2 in) heliometre designed by Joseph von Fraunhofer . The largest unit for expressing distances across space at that time
585-411: The Council to stop the ship from leaving. Twenty-two years later, the ship arrives at G889, but it crash lands a great distance from the planned landing site. With her group scattered on the planet and supplies missing, Devon marshals what survivors she can find and begins heading west to the planned site of New Pacifica. During their travels, Adair and her companions slowly learn to cope with life on
624-496: The IAU (1964) System of Astronomical Constants, used from 1968 to 1983. The product of Simon Newcomb 's J1900.0 mean tropical year of 31 556 925 .9747 ephemeris seconds and a speed of light of 299 792 .5 km/s produced a light-year of 9.460 530 × 10 m (rounded to the seven significant digits in the speed of light) found in several modern sources was probably derived from an old source such as C. W. Allen 's 1973 Astrophysical Quantities reference work, which
663-470: The Region 4 DVD). The set includes all 21 episodes in order according to the air date—not the production order—resulting in two episodes ("Natural Born Grendlers" and "Flower Child") being ordered after the final episode, "All About Eve". These two were originally not aired until after the planned season finale had been aired and it was then known that the series had been cancelled; with the series not renewed
702-514: The Santa Fe area. The series' music was composed by David Bergeaud , and the executive producers were Duggan, Levin, and Flint. The show had a successful premiere, reaching eighth place for the week; however, ratings dropped off quickly as the Nielsen ratings share had dropped from 23% to 9%. During its run, it had been nominated for a Primetime Emmy , Saturn , and other awards. In 2005,
741-418: The Terrians and begun to exhibit some of their unique characteristics, has become the key to the Council's plan for the planet. The interactions among the original crew, the convicts, the government and the local aliens and their planet forms the basis of many of the story's plot lines, as the colonists learn more about their new home while trying to avoid detection by the Council. The landscape and climate of
780-455: The alien world, which at first seems superficially Earth-like but which is gradually revealed to have a very different ecology , including at least two different native sentient and humanoid species—a short and stout race at the level of development of hunter-gatherers , with a propensity towards kleptomania , known as "Grendlers" and the much taller and lankier "Terrians", who are capable of telepathic communication, can tear rents and tunnels in
819-514: The earth through a pseudo-psychic process and whose well-being is somehow linked to that of the planet. The survivors also learn that the Council—a government group that seems to wield most of the power on the space stations—wants to gain control of G889 for resettlement. Through their various experiments, they have learned that they cannot remove the Terrians without killing the planet. This complicates matters, because Devon's son, who has been healed by
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#1732783085181858-470: The entire series was released on DVD in a four-disc set. In 2192, most of the human population has fled Earth to live on large orbiting space stations . Only a small number of humans remain on the Earth's surface as the Earth has become mostly uninhabitable. Billionaire Devon Adair's eight-year-old son, Ulysses Adair, has contracted a rare, fatal disease called "the syndrome", a condition whose existence
897-585: The fall of 1997, and in Turkey and Norway in 1998. In 2011 it aired on TV4 Science Fiction in Sweden . The complete series, comprising 21 episodes including the two-hour pilot, was released on DVD on July 19, 2005, in the United States in Region 1 format, on four dual-sided discs. The two parts of "First Contact" originally aired as the pilot in one feature-length 90-minute episode (95 minutes and 30 seconds on
936-501: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Earth_2&oldid=1193504071 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Earth 2 (TV series) Earth 2 is an American science fiction television series that aired on NBC from November 6, 1994, to June 4, 1995. The show
975-438: The mental picture of the approximate transit time for light, but he refrained from using the light-year as a unit. He may have resisted expressing distances in light-years because it would reduce the accuracy of his parallax data due to multiplying with the uncertain parameter of the speed of light. The speed of light was not yet precisely known in 1838; the estimate of its value changed in 1849 ( Fizeau ) and 1862 ( Foucault ). It
1014-669: The much better-known Captain Kathryn Janeway of Star Trek: Voyager by more than two months. The overarching plot of the show and various individual elements helped explore the Gaia hypothesis , mainly through the Syndrome, its effects on many children, and the subsequent healing of the illness after the Eden Project arrives on G889. During the show, various political and social themes were addressed as well. Throughout
1053-422: The new planet where the ship crashed seems very much like that of harsher climates on Earth , such as the southwestern United States. Water is scarce and scrub grows out of rock formations. In this area, three different species of life are discovered by Devon Adair and her group. Earth 2 broke new ground by placing Devon Adair as one of the first female commanders in a science fiction television show, preceding
1092-552: The planet) takes place before "After the Thaw" (day 109 on the planet), and "Flower Child" should have followed "Survival of the Fittest". In addition to the episodes, the set includes eight deleted and extended scenes, and out-takes . Another DVD set titled Earth 2: The Complete Series was released on May 28, 2012, for Region 2 . It corrected the above-mentioned episode order problem by placing them in narrative order, and included
1131-403: The planet, however, is opposed by the government. Secret monitoring and agent infiltration threaten the creation of the colony of New Pacifica. Hours before Adair's group intends to leave, a bomb is discovered, set to explode the hour the ship would leave. The Eden Project leaves immediately, jettisoning the bomb before detonation. In "The Church of Morgan", it is revealed this bomb was planted by
1170-493: The same general area, such as those belonging to the same spiral arm or globular cluster . Galaxies themselves span from a few thousand to a few hundred thousand light-years in diameter, and are separated from neighbouring galaxies and galaxy clusters by millions of light-years. Distances to objects such as quasars and the Sloan Great Wall run up into the billions of light-years. Distances between objects within
1209-455: The season finale became the series finale. In the order of production, and more importantly of the story line, the episode "Natural Born Grendlers" should have followed "Life Lessons". (Clue: Alonzo has a cut on his forehead in "Promises" which he got in "Natural Born Grendlers". However, most people place it after "Promises, Promises" because the three Gaal episodes were shown as a group. ) The episode "The Boy Who Would Be Terrian King" (day 104 on
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1248-399: The series aspects of the relation of Terrians to the planet and to the colonists reflect the history of colonies with native populations and slavery. In "The Enemy Within", Julia is left behind by the group because of her treachery, addressing briefly what punishments are moral or even inhumane. Another aspect of this issue is addressed in "The Man Who Fell to Earth (Two)", when the group meets
1287-415: The space stations in Earth orbit to travel to a planet 22 light-years away named G889 in hopes of a better life for sick children afflicted with an illness known only as "the syndrome". An advance team will prepare the new colony for the remaining 250 families that will arrive in 26 months; however their craft crash-lands. While scouting for their missing supplies Commander O'Neill is apparently killed by
1326-476: The time had been criminals. Exterior shots filmed in New Mexico locations such as Kasha Katuwe Tent Rocks and Diablo Canyon , provided the setting for the series. (Note: Due to presentation choices of the network, some episodes of this series were aired out of narrative sequence. The table below includes the episode numbering of most recent home media release of the series. ) A group of humans leaves
1365-537: Was canceled after one season of 21 episodes. It follows the journey and settlement of a small expeditionary group called the Eden Project, with the intent to journey to an Earth-like planet called G889 in an attempt to find a cure to an illness called "the syndrome". The series was created by Billy Ray , Michael Duggan , Carol Flint , and Mark Levin , produced by Amblin Entertainment and Universal Television , and filmed primarily in northern New Mexico around
1404-458: Was later split into two episodes for syndication). The following week it moved to a regular time slot. On April 23, 1995, two individual episodes were aired back-to-back from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. EST. It was also aired in Austria , Australia , Canada , Finland , Germany , Hungary , Italy , Netherlands , New Zealand , Poland , Spain and United Kingdom , later in 1995 Greece and Egypt in
1443-432: Was not yet considered to be a fundamental constant of nature, and the propagation of light through the aether or space was still enigmatic. The light-year unit appeared in 1851 in a German popular astronomical article by Otto Ule . Ule explained the oddity of a distance unit name ending in "year" by comparing it to a walking hour ( Wegstunde ). A contemporary German popular astronomical book also noticed that light-year
1482-440: Was the astronomical unit , equal to the radius of the Earth's orbit at 150 million kilometres (93 million miles). In those terms, trigonometric calculations based on 61 Cygni's parallax of 0.314 arcseconds, showed the distance to the star to be 660 000 astronomical units (9.9 × 10 km; 6.1 × 10 mi). Bessel added that light takes 10.3 years to traverse this distance. He recognized that his readers would enjoy
1521-438: Was updated in 2000, including the IAU (1976) value cited above (truncated to 10 significant digits). Other high-precision values are not derived from a coherent IAU system. A value of 9.460 536 207 × 10 m found in some modern sources is the product of a mean Gregorian year (365.2425 days or 31 556 952 s ) and the defined speed of light ( 299 792 458 m/s ). Another value, 9.460 528 405 × 10 m ,
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