Because I can’t resist the date.
This particular confluence of numerical coincidence won’t happen again this century. Proper appreciation must be shown.
Or, as Stephen Jay Gould once said, “I have always and dearly loved calendrical questions because they display all our foibles in revealing miniature. Where else can we note, so vividly revealed, such an intimate combination of all the tricks that recalcitrant nature plays upon us, linked with all the fallacies of reason, and all the impediments of habit and emotion, that make the fulfillment of our urge to understand even more more difficult…”
It is in our nature to reject coincidence as simply what it is, especially when it comes to cosmic events. …