Tootfinder

Twenty minutes ago, I sent what I hoped could be my last private message to a moderator. The closing word there was "Respect"; I'll continue this respect by not addressing him in this toot.
@… it's certainly not a bad attitude – if you know a background that most people do not. Consider this quote from the subsequent comment:
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The timing of this act of piracy and theft by the USA's Trump regime is revealing: the day the Venezuelan coup supporter (who called for invasion of her country) incomprehensibly receives the Nobel peace prize.
It's theatre, but of an extremely ominous form.
US seizes oil tanker off Venezuela as Caracas condemns 'act of piracy'

US seizes oil tanker off Venezuela as Caracas condemns 'act of piracy'
The move is a sharp escalation in Washington's pressure campaign against Nicolás Maduro's government.

Ukraine’s political system is bracing for a “mini-revolution”
as the county’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy,
is forced to adapt to life without
his closest adviser, chief enforcer and most loyal associate,
Andriy Yermak,
who resigned on Friday
after his apartment was searched
as part of a widening anti-corruption probe.
Yermak was widely believed to control a network of Telegram channels
that poured dirt on those who crossed him,
a…

Interesting corollary to the #Perseverance discovery in the Bright Angel formation on #Mars making headlines 1 1/2 months ago: at a public talk in Bochum as part of a mathematics outreach event - #Life Detection scale #MarsSampleReturnMission the rating could jump up to 5 or 6 after lab analysis.
Green also remarked that the sample tubes dropped by Percy are up for grabs for *any* spacefaring nation capable of doing a MSRM - including China though they don't plan to go after the Percy samples with their upcoming #Tianwen3 mission (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianwen-3) as far as he has heard. And regardless of where they'll get their own samples they could advance the case for life, perhaps even extant, on Mars a lot - which Green feels has been all but made in the past decades of Mars research anyway. Oh, and he also thinks terraforming Mars is quite viable ...