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This is called hubble expansion, after Edwin Hubble, who discovered the phenomenon in 1929.
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Twice a day, after their midday and evening meals, our sailors were wont to sit in a circle and solemnly smoke a certain big pipe of the kind known as a hubble-bubble.
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He delights in the Mittal Orbit tower - dubbed a "hubble bubble pretzel type building."
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Do a search on "hubble" and the # 7 site is a flash site, but this is do to inbound anchor text.
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"hubble" is a stationary pencil management tool designed to make pencils and drawing supplies easy to organize and to access.
DESIGNSPOTTER 2009
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Text messages will cost less per byte than sending data to the hubble space telescope - hasn't happened yet, so they're bound to do it within 20 years.
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For all its inspiring pictures hubble will not fire up a kid's imagination in the same manner as an astronaut walking on the moon or something along those lines.
Charles Bolden Nominated for NASA Administrator by President Obama - NASA Watch 2009
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Not being greedy say to geostationary orbit, or be able to go from shuttle to hubble orbit and back, or equatorial to polar.
Candid Comments on the Constellation Program - NASA Watch 2009
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The average person doesn't appreciate how difficult it was to fix the hubble a few weeks ago.
Remembering Apollo 11 and the Legacy of Apollo - NASA Watch 2009
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You'll have no manned program on the books, nothing to show for the money spent, no means to replace or repair installations like hubble or even access the ISS, and nothing to compete with the growing space exploration programs of Russia and China.
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HOKA soles also have a lower heel-to-toe drop than New Balance running shoes, and they have a meta rocker or hubble heel, which is designed to help guide the transition from heel to toe (impact to push off) when you run.
Hoka Vs New Balance: Running Shoe Comparison Amber Sayer, MS, CPT, CNC 2023
reesetee commented on the word hubble
In astronomy, an enormous unit equaling 109 light years, or 9.4605 x 1021 kilometers (9.4605 yottameters), 5.8785 sextillion miles (U.S.), 63.240 x 1012 astronomical units, or 306.595 megaparsecs. Most astronomers use the megaparsec instead of the hubble.
November 6, 2007
seanahan commented on the word hubble
It is enormous in earthly terms, not in economical terms.
November 7, 2007