So let me get this straight. According to your numbers of a circumferance of 78,000 miles which we will assume are accurate for purposes of discussion, everything would be much further apart in order to still even take up the space on earth. So let's say you are getting on a boat to go to, oh, I don't know.... let's say Austrailia. RE'rs will tell you that it is let's say 3000 miles. You also know that a mile is 5,280 feet. You can physically measure how many feet a minute are being traveled. Let's say you are traveling at 10 miles an hour, it would take you 300 hours to travel that distance. So it would take you 12.5 days. However, if you use the circumferance of 78,000 miles the distance is roughy 7 times squared farther. Roughly 49 times farther. So what would take you 12.5 days would suddenly take you 612.5 days traveling the same speed. So is it an illusion or is the boat that we measure traveling 52,800 feet a hour really traveling 49 times faster?