11-11-11 unusual date but it’s only apophenia
By Tarra Quismundo
Philippine Daily Inquirer
2:47 am | Thursday, November 10th, 2011
The rare alignment of digits tomorrow may stir anxiety among the superstitious, but 11-11-11 (November 11, 2011) may well be as flat as the number.
The once-in-a-century synchronicity of 11s will see a rather ordinary day, according to science and geomancy, but not for those who decided to make the day special by setting weddings, project launches and other special events.
“The date just sounds nice but I can’t see any meaning to it,†said Dario de la Cruz, chief of the weather bureau’s Space Sciences and Astronomy Section.
“It’s an ordinary date. I can’t think of anything it might mean, even in superstition,†De la Cruz said.
By Friday, the moon would be rising to its fullest, the stars would be where they should be, and Earth would have counted two days since its closest encounter with an asteroid—the 400-meter-wide 2005 YU55.
But no, the date of three 11s will not spell a special cosmic event, De la Cruz said. The sky may even be cloudy.
“We have not received any calls asking about 11-11-11. The calls we’re getting are about the asteroid,†he said in reference to YU55’s fly-by that would have been seen past 6 a.m. Wednesday.
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