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The distance 11,000,000 miles is referenced in the television series, The Twilight Zone, season 1, episode 14, Third from the Sun. Two families escape from their planet before destruction and find an inhabitable planet called "Earth." It made me wonder if there could be life 11,000.000 miles from us.

It is highly unlikely that you would find anything 11 million miles from Earth. Solar distances are (pardon the pun) astronomical. The Earth is about 96 million miles from the Sun. The moon, our closest neighbor, is 238,900 miles away. In short, at closest pass, 11 million miles would not reach Mars or Venus. Venus, the closest of the two, stretches out to 162 million miles away.

Richard Matheson, the author of the short story on which "Third from the Sun" was based, was much more concerned with examining human issues than mathematical fact. This is far more clear in one of his more famous works, the 1954 novel I Am Legend(might be familiar as the movie of the same name starring Wil Smith, the 1971 movie The Omega Man starring Charleton Heston, and the 1964 movie The Last Man On Earth starring Vincent Price).

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