Quote: (05-19-2014 08:22 PM)cardguy Wrote:
For all I know America and Britain are 70 miles from each other. And planes just go round in circles for 8 hours - every flight - to give the illusion that the countries are thousands of miles apart.
I read the other day that cruise voyage companies do something a bit like this.
Apparently on a lot of 'round the world' cruises - you will spend a couple of days travelling from one beach paradise to another.
And since these islands are only a few hours apart - the ships will circle for a day or so in a giant circle - with the next island close by over the horizon to give the illusion to the holiday goers that they are travelling further than they really are.
Psychologically - it must be more powerful to spend a couple of days cruising to the next island than it would to spend a 6 hours.
This is too vague an idea to search for evidence of on Google. But I thought it was an interesting story.
Not sure where I read it though...