Ham radio operators can also conduct EME communications (or Earth-Moon-Earth) communications for long distant contacts by aiming their antennas at — you guessed it — the moon and bouncing their radio signals off of it to achieve longer distance communication with other Earth stations beyond the radio horizon. And the occasional space ship.

Actually, the length of an object appears to decrease, not increase. The faster the object moves, the shorter it appears. Relativistic speeds involve time dilation, mass gain, and length contraction.