2140s

The 2140s decade will begin on January 1, 2140 and will end on December 31, 2149. It will be the fifth decade of the 22nd century.

Predicted Astronomical Events

• June 19, 2141: Long-duration lunar eclipse of about 106.1 minutes. This lunar eclipse is in the same Saros series (132) as the long lunar eclipse in 2123, and has an almost identical duration.^[1]
• 2148: Triple conjunction Mars–Saturn^[2].

Science Fiction set in 2140s

Literature

• Crisis in 2140 (serialized as Null-ABC) by H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire
• The Outward Urge by John Wyndham has the first successful landing on Venus in 2144^[3].
• Dirty Pair by Haruka Takachiho occurs during 2138–2143, though most incarnations of the story place the setting at 2141^[4].

Television and Film

• The events of Captain Power occur in the year 2147^[5].
• The events of Sky Blue occur in the year 2142^[6].
• The events of the Captain Video begin in the year 2149.
• Gundam Seed, an alternate-universe version of Mobile Suit Gundam (the Cosmic Era calendar begins about 10 years after the predicted oil crash of the mid-21st century, placing the beginning of the CE calendar sometime between 2040 and 2090, the series would therefore take place sometime between 2111 and 2161)^[7].
• The SciFi Channel series FTL Newsfeed begins in the year 2142^[8].
• The Fox Network series "Terra Nova" takes place in the year 2149^[9].

Video Games

• Battlefield 2142 is a computer game based on a war beginning in the year 2139. It also predicts that a new ice age will begin in 2106. Its expansion pack Northern Strike is set in 2145^[10].
• Earth 2140^[11].
• Doom 3 is a science-fiction horror game that takes place in 2145^[12].

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