Go up in a balloon and look down, or up a mountain and look across. Even a tall building will do.
Or of course, you could look at an object a quarter of a million miles away (the moon), 90+ million miles (the sun - DO NOT LOOK DIRECTLY!), or several trillion miles to brighter stars.
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At 35 MPH, it would take 1 minute 43 seconds to cover one mile
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Two; the north and south poles. Because a compass will always point you in the direction of the poles due to their magnetic emission, if you start exactly at the north pole and travel due south one mile and due west one more mile, your compass will point you directly back to the pole, which you will be exactly one mile away from, and likewise for the south pole.
8 blocks is in one mile and .1 mile is one mile
That over an extended period of time of n seconds, it will have travelled a distance of n miles.