"02/02/2020 has the unique distinction of reading the same backward and forward when written out in eight digits in multiple date systems, according to University of Portland professor Aziz Inan." [1]
Quoting further from the article cited above [2]:
For starters, it's an eight-digit palindrome: 02022020. Many palindrome dates are only symmetrical if you write the date with seven digits (1-10-2011) — or in some cases even fewer (9-10-19).
But even more rare, according to Inan, is that Sunday's date is an international palindrome: It works whether you write the date as "Month/Day/Year" or "Day/Month/Year," as many countries do.
Inan calls such dates "ubiquitous palindromes," and there won't be another one for 101 years. After that, you'll have to wait until March 3, 3030[, that's 1,010 years and 29 days from today, 02/02/2020, a very, very long wait].
According to Inan's calculations, the last such palindrome date to occur was 11/11/1111 – more than 900 years ago.
The world is united by the passage and measurement of time but those who exist in it are not due to a plethora of sins including but not limited to greed, pride and envy. The only way to remedy this is to end this world and begin a new one. Only God knows whether this tired, old and broken world will continue to exist when the next palindrome comes in 101 years, on 12/12/2121, and if it does, how much more broken it will be.
It can be assumed that wars will continue, that pandemics will occur with more and more frequency, such as the new and still spreading corona virus in China with a first death reported outside of China in the Philippines [3], and that climate will become less and less hospitable for humans but perfect for locusts to reproduce which is happening now in Africa [4]:
Cyclones that struck the driest parts of the Arabian Peninsula last year triggered the current crisis, creating ideal conditions for the desert locust species to multiply. Left to breed in isolated corners of Saudi Arabia and Yemen, the locust swarms crossed to the Horn of Africa where they were given further support by another cyclone.
More breeding cycles are expected. The swarms increase in size twentyfold with each successive generation and could reach India by June.
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres took to Twitter yesterday in an effort to draw global attention to the worsening outbreak. The swarms are now threatening farms in parts of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia but are expected to spread to neighboring countries soon.
The U.N. chief pinned blame for the crisis squarely on global warming....
With all of this occurring on top of Mideast tensions, here is a song that brings hope sung by Louis Armstrong entitled What A Wonderful World on You Tube with over 81 million views to date [5]. Here are the lyrics [6]:
I see trees of green
Red roses too
I see them bloom
For me and you
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world
I see skies of blue
And clouds of white
The bright blessed day
The dark sacred night
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world
The colors of the rainbow
So pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces
Of people going by
I see friends shaking hands
Saying, "How do you do?"
They're really saying
"I love you"
I hear babies cry
I watch them grow
They'll learn much more
Than I'll never know
And I think to myself
What a wonderful world
Yes, I think to myself
What a wonderful world
Oh yeah
(To celebrate international palindrome day, 02.02.2020, this will post at 0202 hours.)
[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/sundays-date-is-a-rare-palindrome-that-hasnt-happened-in-over-900-years/ar-BBZyrJx?ocid=spartanntp
[2] Ibid.
[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-51345855
[4] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/unprecedented-locust-invasion-approaches-full-blown-crisis/
[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3yCcXgbKrE
[6] https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/louisarmstrong/whatawonderfulworld.html
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