The contest has also been characterized as a promotional vehicle for Hubbard himself, who returned to science fiction writing with Battlefield Earth at about the same time as he began the contest.

The original title for the show was Battleground: Earth, but the producers changed it because it sounded too much like L. Ron Hubbard's novel, Battlefield Earth.

L. Ron Hubbard's 1982 novel Battlefield Earth depicts a merciless alien race-the Psychlos-conquering and controlling Earth for 1, 000 years to strip the planet of its minerals, mainly gold.

Cartman is also featured in the documentary film The Aristocrats, telling his version of the film's titular joke to Stan, Kyle, and Kenny, and in " The Gauntlet ", a short spoofing both Gladiator and Battlefield Earth that aired during the 2000 MTV Movie Awards.

It was soon tied with Battlefield Earth for winning the most Razzies in a single year, a record broken when I Know Who Killed Me won eight trophies in 2008 and then again when Jack and Jill won ten awards in 2012.

Battlefield Earth may refer to:

* Battlefield Earth ( novel ), a science fiction novel by L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology.

** Battlefield Earth ( soundtrack ) ( also called Space Jazz ), companion music soundtrack to the novel, composed by L. Ron Hubbard.

** Battlefield Earth ( film ), a 2000 film adaptation of the novel, starring John Travolta.

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* In the movie Battlefield Earth an alien race finds the voyager probe and are interested in Earth because gold is extremely rare and valuable to them.

* In the L. Ron Hubbard novel Battlefield Earth, it is mentioned by the principal alien character that his race's conquest of Earth was made possible by their discovery of a space probe " that gave full directions to the place, had pictures of man on it and everything.

Kyle also featured in the documentary film The Aristocrats, listening to Cartman tell his version of the film's titular joke, and in the " The Gauntlet ", a short spoofing both Gladiator and Battlefield Earth which aired during the 2000 MTV Movie Awards.

* Battlefield Earth is set in the year 3000.

She played the girlfriend of her husband, John Travolta's, character " Terl " in the 2000 film Battlefield Earth, and received " Worst Supporting Actress " at the 21st Golden Raspberry Awards for her role in the film.

A live album, Live from Earth, which was recorded during Benatar's sold-out Get Nervous world tour of America and Europe in 1982 and 1983, contained two studio tracks, " Love Is a Battlefield " and " Lipstick Lies.

The two exchanged letters until Hubbard's death in 1986, and Corea had three guest appearances on Hubbard's 1982 album Space Jazz: The Soundtrack of the Book Battlefield Earth, noting, " was a great composer and keyboard player as well.

( i. e., better than Battlefield Earth, his only other later published work of fiction ).

* Battlefield Medicine-The Ancient World 2000 BC-AD 500

Hardin, MT: Custer Battlefield Historical and Museum Association, 2000.

* Edwards, Sean A. J., Swarming on the Battlefield: Past, Present, and Future, Palo Alto, CA, RAND Research, 2000 ISBN 0-8330-2779-4

Whitaker next appeared in what has been called one of the worst films ever made, the 2000 production of Battlefield Earth, based on the novel of the same name by L. Ron Hubbard.

In 2000, the former Tredegar Iron Works facility overlooking the James River near downtown Richmond became the site of the main Visitor's Center of the Richmond National Battlefield Park.

Hardin: Custer Battlefield Historical and Museum Association, 2000.

Hardin MT: Custer Battlefield Historical and Museum Society, 2000.

* Hammer, Kenneth, edited by Ronald H. Nichols, Men with Custer: Biographies of the 7th Cavalry June 25, 1876, Hardin, MT: Custer Battlefield Historical and Museum Association, 2000.

* In the 2000 film Battlefield Earth, a group of humans, enslaved by an alien race called the Psychlos, trick them into thinking they're " mining " for gold by breaking into the Bullion Depository and delivering them the gold that's stored there.

The science-fiction film Battlefield Earth ( 2000 ), in particular, drew sharp criticism for its pervasive use of the Dutch angle.

* Battlefield Earth ( 2000 )

* 2000: Battlefield Earth-Warner Bros. / Franchise-Jonathan D. Krane / Elie Samaha / John Travolta

The 2000 film Battlefield Earth was an adaptation of a novel by L. Ron Hubbard.

* 2000 – A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.

* 2000 – The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth.

* The Legend That Was Earth ISBN 978-0-671-31840-6-October 2000

Examples include Piet Mondrian's Dam and Ocean ( 1915 ), Joan Miró's Labyrinth ( 1923 ), Pablo Picasso's Minotauromachia ( 1935 ), M. C. Escher's Relativity ( 1953 ), Friedensreich Hundertwasser's Labyrinth ( 1957 ), Jean Dubuffet's Logological Cabinet ( 1970 ), Richard Long's Connemara sculpture ( 1971 ), Joe Tilson's Earth Maze ( 1975 ), Richard Fleischner's Chain Link Maze ( 1978 ), István Orosz's Atlantis Anamorphosis ( 2000 ), Dmitry Rakov's Labyrinth ( 2003 ), and Labyrinthine projection by contemporary American artist Mo Morales ( 2000 ).

Predictions for the Moon's Leonid impacts also noted that in 2000 the side of the Moon facing the stream was away from the Earth but that impacts should be in number enough to raise a cloud of particles kicked off the Moon by impacts would cause a detectable increase in the sodium tail of the Moon.

* Progressive rock band Ayreon's 2000 album Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer tells the story of the last surviving human living on a Mars colony, many years after a war wiped out all life on Earth, leaving the Mars colony berift of supplies.

In an interview in 2000, Mikhail Gorbachev, in response to the comment " In the 1980s, you warned about the unprecedented dangers of nuclear weapons and took very daring steps to reverse the arms race ," said " Models made by Russian and American scientists showed that a nuclear war would result in a nuclear winter that would be extremely destructive to all life on Earth ; the knowledge of that was a great stimulus to us, to people of honor and morality, to act in that situation.

In 2000, Peter Ward, professor of Biology and of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington authored a book claiming the Rare Earth hypothesis.

The document, an ethical framework for a sustainable world, was developed over several years after the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 and launched officially in 2000.

The Charter derives its legitimacy from the participatory process in which it was drafted, which included contributions from hundreds of organizations and thousands of individuals, and from its use since 2000 by thousands of organizations and individuals that have been using the Earth Charter as an educational instrument and a policy tool.

Presented as a future extrapolation of the speculative World War III of GDW's popular military role-playing game Twilight: 2000, in which the various nations of Earth were only just beginning to explore and colonize the 50 light year sphere of surrounding space.

The manufacturer of the game, Game Designers ' Workshop ( GDW ), which is now owned by Tantalus, extended the timeline of Twilight 2000 to create the background history for the science fiction game 2300 AD ; by doing so the rather depressing post-nuclear environment of Twilight 2000 is mitigated by the outcome in which the Earth rebuilds itself and begins to colonize space.

* September 29, 1999: The Mickey Mouse arm holding a wand is dedicated with " 2000 " ( later changed to " Epcot ") over Spaceship Earth

Pulsed plasma thrusters were flown in November, 2000 as a flight experiment on the Earth Observing-1 spacecraft.

Given that Toutatis makes many close approaches the Earth, such as in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012, it is listed as a potentially hazardous object.

In May 2000, the five brightest planets were aligned within 20 degrees of the Sun, as seen from the Earth.

* Sandra Gulland, The Last Great Dance on Earth — 2000

T. Coraghessan Boyle's novel A Friend of the Earth ( 2000 ) is a story of environmental destruction.

Athens was vaunted as one of the top fifteen most haunted cities in America on the Fox Family Channel special " Scariest Places On Earth " that aired on October 23, 2000.

She is the author of four photo essay books featuring her photography of the Earth, including Passionate Vision ( 2000 ), which covered Canada's national parks.

* Foucault, M. L., Physical demonstration of the rotation of the Earth by means of the pendulum, Franklin Institute, 2000, retrieved 2007-10-31.

In the 2000 Census, 5. 7 % of the people in Bennett County identified as mixed-race Native American-European American ( more Lakota socially identify as having mixed-race ancestry ) This is the highest percentage of any county within US boundaries, except northeastern Oklahoma and White Earth Indian Reservation in northwestern Minnesota.