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Would clarifying words have helped? "If you only sailed with forward force..." or "Following along the surface of the earth..." or... what?
Obviously they mean that you don't need to make any turns and that straight means an arc around the earth and not through the Earth, unless someone has a very different idea what sailing means...
Depends on what you mean by help. Yes, it would communicate the point better, but it's engagement bait, so the ambiguity is a feature rather than a bug.