[eindiran]

If you told me that the Mediterranean dried up "recently", with no other context, and you were referring to Messinian salinity crisis from 5 MYBP it would significantly limit my belief in your adherence to good-faith conversational form even if it is "recently" in a geological sense.

[perl4ever]

I think the article says it's 40 times nearer than the previous closest, which seems more relevant than the farthest galaxy.