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NASA claims that it’s Hasselblad Moon cam can be used in an environment that ranges from about 100 degrees C in the daytime (78 C). At night, the lunar surface gets very cold, as cold as minus 173 degrees C. Unexposed film freezes at 0 degrees C and melts at 37 degree’s C. (115 F)

There are a few truths in this world. The Earth is round. Gravity is a wonderful thing. Space is a vast void of craziness that we have yet to understand, just like the depths of the ocean. Yet, some people still doubt the reality of that first truth I mentioned. The flat earth revolution is driven by a strong-willed group of people who doubt mainstream science

Luminaries such as rapper B.o.B and NBA star Kyrie Irving have sprinkled doubt — whether in jest or not — that the Earth is as it appears in pictures. And now a YouGov survey of 8,215 American adults comes out that offers troubling results. The numbers appear to show that only 84 percent of Americans have always believed the Earth is round and had no doubts about it.

Several years ago, Daniel Clark was looking to direct a documentary when he read discussions on Reddit about an increasingly popular topic: whether the Earth was actually flat, and if we were living in a Truman Show-like simulation. Clark’s curiosity brought him to the Flat Earth International Conference.

On the last Sunday afternoon in March, Mike Hughes, a sixty-two-year-old limousine driver from Apple Valley, California, successfully launched himself above the Mojave Desert in a homemade steam-powered rocket. He’d been trying for years, in one way or another. In 2002, Hughes set a Guinness World Record for the longest ramp jump—a hundred and three feet—in a limo, a stretch Lincoln Town Car.