Looks like quote originally came from NASA's hubblesite.org ( https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2019/18/4505-Image). Second graf includes "The star, the largest member of a double-star system, has been prone to violent outbursts,...". So maybe "petulant" is just a metaphor taken too far. On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 11:40 AM Bill Gosper <billgosper@gmail.com> wrote:

This mailing was originally just a vocabulary exercise for "the kids" to correct "resentful". But now I'm stumped: "This Hubble Space Telescope image of the giant, petulant star Eta Carinae is yielding new surprises." Anyone? —rwg

On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 10:54 AM Bill Gosper <billgosper@gmail.com> wrote:

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"A pair of resentful porch pirates returned a boy’s <https://www.foxnews.com/category/health/healthy-living/childrens-health

WWE belt from the house they stole it from — and sent along an apology note — after learning that the package they poached was intended for the 5-year-old ahead of his upcoming brain surgery. <https://www.foxnews.com/category/health/medical-research/surgery>" —Bill Conceivably. The Sacramento Bee once tried to enforce political correctness with a spell-checker, and printed the headline: Latest round of tax hikes designed to put city back in the African American.

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