I was thinking more along the lines of shutter speed and lack of fuzzing the image out. If the thing is moving extremely fast, a shutter speed of normal use for landscape scenes would not even catch a discernable object. Likewise, the focal distance comes into play.
I don't think it was moving. I suspect that at the end of the rope that's holding it stationary one will find either a furniture store holding a sale or a used car lot.......