Talk:Third from the Sun

11 million miles

 * No explanation is given as to how a planet could be ' 11 million miles away '. Even the closest approach to Earth from Mars is 34M miles (2003), and asteroids are even further away, between Mars & Jupiter. ***

They're from a different planet, they're miles are different from ours. Is that so hard?


 * Yeah, except it would have been just as easy for the writers to say "25 trillion miles" or some other more realistic number... It's hard to think of a justification for why they would choose "11 million" over that.
 * Obviously their definition of a mile is different to ours... Lugnuts 16:45, 22 April 2007 (UTC)


 * 11.18 million miles is the speed of light per minute. Perhaps...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cosumel (talk • contribs) 18:11, 8 February 2017 (UTC)

I'm late to this debate, but back in the '50s-'60s, 'light years' were unheard of by most people outside of the scientific community. Any concept of the vastness of the universe was nothing compared to what it is today. There is no doubt that the producers simply picked some large (to them) number and ran with it. The notion of good science on TZ is pretty laughable what with people living on small asteroids which have good atmospheres and gravity along with virtually all of the other nonsense. I mean, they still thought it quite plausible that people lived on Mars! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mofo80503 (talk • contribs) 19:20, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Just a Quick Question
How is it that they went to earth? I know it's a dumb question, & I know that this doesn't have anything else to do with the article, but I mean, were these people from another planet or something?Jpmcruiser (talk) 01:59, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Not a dumb question

Your question is not dumb, because if this is not clear, then maybe the plot description inside of the wikipedia article is lacking something. So after all, your question really has something to do with the article ;-)

Regarding your question:

Yes, these people were from another planet. And that is the whole point of this episode since this fact is never mentioned during the episode but only revealed at the very end of it (when they escape with the stolen spaceship to fly to a planet they call the "third from the sun" which is our earth).

So it is intended that you get the initial impression that the whole plot plays on the earth some day in the future in some kind of totalitarian state which is eagerly and enthusiastically preparing a large scale nuclear war which will herald the end of the world. It is also intended that you won't find out until the end that these people are escaping from another planet to earth.

It is made as a surprise to the viewer at the end of the episode to let him think about the implied question: "If this planet who was destroyed by a nuclear war would have been our earth instead, where would we have a habitable planet "third from the sun" to escape to ?"

Bertikrueger (talk) 15:02, 17 May 2010 (UTC)