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It does appear that way.

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America's farmland and our last few acres of rainforest ;-)

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My understanding is that space itself is expanding.  Imagine a "universe" in
which the stars, planets, etc. are dots on the surface of a balloon.  The
balloon material is space itself and someone is inflating the balloon.

Ted
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