Would you believe that was a Bob Dylan song?
I didn’t know that whiskey in the US and UK was different.
I prefer the old country whiskey.
And don’t forget the Japanese whiskey
Crabs in the ocean “produce” substances that do not exist in the ocean water.
We call that “alchemy,” a legendary science (or superstition if you will) of the Middle Ages where new substances and molecules are produce through a process called transmutation.
Is it all hocus-pocus?
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The video is proof of nothing. It is a known fact that light can (and does) bend around spheres. Even on a small scale this occurs.
It is impossible to see an object located at or near the other side of the earth, but it is not impossible to detect light from objects beyond and ‘below’ the obstruction of line of sight caused by the horizon.
This was proven many years ago and gave rise to the term Poisson’s Spot .
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When I refer to whiskey/whisky I mean scotch - American whiskey is really just bourbon - only scotch is true whisky.
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I think bourbon taste horrible.
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I was in Almaty, Kazakhstan, a few years ago. The city’s population is about 50% Muslim Kazakhs and 33% Russians. The rest are Ukrainians, Uighurs, etc.
My hotel was near the old market which was huge, so I went there everyday. They sold all kinds of clothes and foods including Russian sausages and it was funny to hear Muslim Kazakh vendors yelling “Sausages, sausages!”
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“… is there a dress-code in this mosque?”
Remember the farce started by John Lennon (?) concerning the hallucinatory effects of the scrapings from the inside of a banana skin? It had the FBI running around chasing their tails and almost got bananas banned as a food! 
Give somebody a white coat, a PhD. and a dose of charisma and you can achieve anything!
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I will be glad when the Earth’s rotation slows to 30 hours per day and then I will have time to read all this stuff which is interesting but needs time to be absorbed…
I vaguely remember that from the 60’s. Here’s a short blurb on it in wikipedia:
(Note: mellow yellow was actually the kind of name they’d give LSD tablets - yellow tablet, mellow yellow. Purple tablet - purple haze. Blue tablet - blue cheer.)
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That Dylan chap gets everywhere, a bit like Dolly Parton
I believe that the Scottish Chamber of Commerce globally defends the copyright on ‘whisky’ as a Scottish product. If it didn’t come from Scotland it ain’t whisky!
At a steady rate of rotational slowing of 2.3 ms per year, it will take only 2572.96 years to gain 6 hours between midnights.
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I guess the French jealously keep the name “champagne” as the product of the Champaigne region.
There are similar products from Germany and Spain but they are not allowed to be champagne.
I once tasted “sake” from California, but it tasted weird because they claim they use the yeast for wine.
If I want wine, I will buy wine…
So lets replace the camera with something else.
Say a laser beam - If the laser is aimed at the farthest rig in the vid does it go straight to it or in order to hit does it also bend round the earth?
What about a cruise missile - would it go straight or would it also have to bend to hit the target?
Are all missiles programmed to take account of the curvature? - that one is rhetorical.
Speaking of laser… you’re on fire!
They need not be programmed for curvature. Onboard controls can maintain altitude.
I doubt there is any difficulty in providing altitude (distance above the surface) control along with heading control to a low flying cruise missile.
Some of our jet fighters use this for low flying missions. They can even look forward to detect changes required before the plane flies into a hill or mountain.
A relatively simple experiment would determine this. Lasers are nothing more that amplified light. However, I doubt a laser beam would be affected as is light traveling tangent to the surface of the sphere.