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50 Fascinating Pictures That Let The Human Body Explain The True Size Of Things
When you read about something or see it on TV, the (lack of) context might leave you guessing — or even worse, misinterpreting — the details.
Luckily, r/HumanForScale solves that problem. Every picture on the subreddit comes with a body or two so that we, the viewers, can accurately gauge the dimensions of objects, whether they're wild animals, historical artefacts, or architectural wonders.
In a world where everyone wants your attention and misinformation spreads faster than ever, clarity is queen.
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#1
2 Hour Old Hippo
WindySwede 2 months ago
"Hello, hippo, my old friend I've come to talk with you again"
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#2
I Never Knew What Absolute U N I T S Clydesdales Are Until I Saw This Picture
Ron Man 2 months ago
Clydesdales are very large, but I also think she's probably not very tall.
2WheelTravlr 2 months ago
Agreed. They are probably 18 hands or more, which puts their shoulder height around 6', so she is probably close to 5' tall.
Load More Replies... Panda Kicki 2 months ago
Luckily very gentle. If they had a Shetland Pony mind we would be history.
Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik are both professors of ophthalmology, neurology, and physiology & pharmacology at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn, New York. They say that absolute size is meaningless to our brain.
"We gauge size by context," Martinez-Conde and Macknik, authors of Champions of Illusion, wrote. "The same medium-sized circle will appear smaller when surrounded by large circles and bigger when surrounded by tiny ones, a phenomenon discovered by German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus."
"Social and psychological context also causes us to misperceive size. Recent research shows that spiders appear larger to people who suffer from arachnophobia than to those who are unafraid of bugs and that men holding weapons seem taller and stronger than men who are holding tools."
#3
The Atlas Moth
Victoria Howell 2 months ago
The tip of the wings look sort of like raptor heads. Fascinating!
cerinamroth 2 months ago
I saw one of these in the Philippines and my gob was smacked! Gigantic, beautiful beasties!
#4
Human Next To A Redwood Tree
Peter Bear 2 months ago
Seeing the redwoods and sequoias in person is one of the most numinous experiences of my life. It's absolutely humbling in the best way.
Zephyr343 2 months ago
Thanks for specifying its a human, I was getting confused thinking it was a tiger quoll or something.
Multa Nocte 2 months ago
Bless you for remembering the humble tiger quoll!
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Michael Largey 2 months ago
"If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all." - Ronald Reagan on why redwood lumbering should not be restricted.
Panda Kicki 2 months ago
We have a oak that started to grow during viking era. I love to sit in it and think about what it may have seen.
Jeff Anderson 2 months ago
I live nearby and no matter how many times I've seen them they never fail to humble. They are jaw dropping. It's like being on an alien planet. Def make plans to visit if you can, it's so worth it.
Load More Replies... st4x2gt974 2 months ago
I haven’t been to the redwoods (bucket list) but the sequoias at Yosemite will remain one of the most awe-inspiring, revered moments of my entire life. I literally well up with tears thinking of their majesty. COVID did a lot of bad stuff, but that trip we took to Yosemite fall of 2020 will remain one of the greatest things I’ve ever done with my family - and I’ve traveled the world and even lived abroad with them.
Geoffrey Scott 2 months ago
Hartwick Pines state park, Grayling Mich. Not THIS big, but old growth white pine.
Cthulhu Kitty 1 month ago
They have one where you can actually drive through. The trunk is so large
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Cute Baby Chameleon
Neuroscientists from the University of Washington and the University of Minnesota have even found that the first area in the cortex of the human brain that receives information from the eyes processes the perceived size, rather than the actual size, of an object.
"Our eyes only tell us part of what we need to be able to see. The other part is done by the brain, taking the input from the eyes and making guesses or inferences about what's out there in the environment," said Scott Murray, who at the time was a UW assistant psychology professor and lead author of the study. "Usually these inferences are very accurate, but sometimes they lead us astray in the form of visual illusions."
#6
The Claws Of Male Southern Cassowary. A Quick Reminder That Birds Are Indeed Descendants Of Dinosaurs
Becky Samuel 2 months ago (edited)
Humans are descendants of fish. We are not fish. Dividing lines have to be drawn, no matter how arbitrary.
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Colleen Glim 2 months ago
Cassowary’s are wild homicidal turkeys. Do NOT mess with them. They will end you. Or at least die trying
Beth Wheeler 2 months ago
I hope that sucker was under anesthesia with that person touching it's foot.
#7
The Robin Williams Mural In Logan Square, Chicago
Marlene Ricker 1 month ago
There will never be another Robin Williams!! He brought so much laughter and happiness into this world!!
#8
Eurasian Eagle-Owl - Russia
Phantom Phoenix 2 months ago
The problem, when you let your owl fly when you're taking the bus, is that they get so distracted by the scenery/ hunting for food. It's a huge waste of time waiting for them at your destination.
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st4x2gt974 2 months ago
The great horned owls I used to see in my yard every dawn (and hear every night) in LA are very similar, only with feathered “horns”
#9
Made This Yesterday. The Black Dot On The Stem Is Me
Bi.Felicia 2 months ago
Took me longer than I care to admit, to realize that this was drawn in the snow and not on a giant white wall.
Murray and his Minnesota colleagues, Huseyin Boyaci and Daniel Kersten, used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to see how the brain processes the size of objects when faced with an illusion such as the long-known moon illusion. (For centuries, it has been known that the moon, while rising, looks huge when it is near the horizon and smaller when high in the sky, even though it's always the same size.)
The researchers used a similar illusion, one that looked at the perceived difference in the size of an object at different distances. For their experiment, they placed two identical spheres decorated with a checkerboard pattern in the front and rear of a receding brick hallway. In this kind of illusion, the more distant object appears to occupy a larger portion of the visual field.
#10
🔥 100 Year Old Rhododendron Bush
Jeolas1 2 months ago (edited)
They might look beautiful but they are terribly invasive. I lived on a tiny Scottish island once and it was an impossible fight to get rid of these in order to make the native vegetation grow back.
Becky Samuel 2 months ago
They also release a toxin from their roots that prevents other plants from germinating underneath them.
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#11
Giant Groundsels, Prehistoric Plants Found On Mt Kilimanjaro
#12
A Man And A 3,200 Year Old Sequoia Tree In California’s Sequoia National Park
Marlene Ricker 1 month ago
That is a helluva long way up!! I wonder how long it too him to climb??
Stephanie Fay 2 months ago
GD! I have got to go see those. I lived in mid Cali 10 years ago but neve got to see them!
Using fMRI, the researchers analyzed how the brains of five people with normal vision registered this difference in perceived size. They noticed that the brain region known as the primary visual cortex, which is the first area in the cortex to receive input from the retina, showed a difference.
Even though both spheres occupied exactly the same size on the retina, the sphere in the rear activated an approximately 20 percent larger area in the primary visual cortex than the sphere in front. This difference closely matched a perceptual difference in size reported by the subjects. When they were asked about the size of the two spheres, the participants estimated the back sphere to be about 20 percent larger than the front one.
#13
The Size Of This Flag Flown On A Spanish Ship At The Battle Of Trafalgar (1805)
StrangeOne 2 months ago (edited)
Implication? Imbrication? Indentation? Identification? I*********n? Idolization? Infantrymen? Imprecation? Imprecision? Icosahedron? Icosandrian? Illiquation? Imagination? Immigration? Imparkation? Impartation? Impastation? Impetration? Implication? Importation? Imploration? Imprecation? Imprecision? Inexecution? Iridization? I give up.
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David 2 months ago
back then, you wanted your side to know where you were in the smoke of battle, so you flew giant flags
2WheelTravlr 2 months ago
Exceedingly logical. I wonder if the large flags affected ship control? It's like an extra sail.
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Jadayupara, The World's Largest Avian Sculpture
highwaycrossingfrog 2 months ago
You can walk on it. You can even go inside it, where there is an observation deck inside the head for a bird's-eye view
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Mel in Georgia 2 months ago
For those who are wondering like I was, this is located at Jatayu Nature Park, a national park and tourism centre at Chadayamangalam in Kollam district of Kerala, India.
Uncle Schmickle 1 month ago
I would like to know more about it, such as its location and significance. Must check Google.
#15
The Endangered Leatherback Sea Turtle, Largest Sea Turtle On Ear
Murray said the simplicity of the outcome can be deceiving. "It almost seems like a first grader could have predicted the result. But virtually no vision or neuroscientist would have," he explained.
"The very dominant view is that the image of an object in the primary visual cortex is just a precise reflection of the image on the retina. I'm sure if one were to poll scientists, 99 percent of them would say the 'large' moon and the 'small' moon occupy the same amount of space in the primary visual cortex, assuming they haven't read our paper!"
#16
Mecynorhina Torquata Is One Of The Largest Flower Beetles In The World
#17
Giant Walrus Having A Nap On A Russian Submarine
Teutonic Disaster 2 months ago
Being russian soldiers, a bet centered around an unknown quantity of vodka was probably involved in the creation of that picture.
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Heather Menard 2 months ago
I heard something about this where the crew couldn't get out because it was sleeping on the hatch
Zitronella 2 months ago
All I can focus on is that this gigantic animal is snuggling its fins around the body at the front and back. This looks so incredibly cute, like it's just a little baby.
#18
The Critically Endangered Giant Chinese Salamander (Largest Salamander And Amphibian In The World)
It apparently sometimes smells like pepper and makes noises that sound like small children. Scientist for size
Bob Bob 2 months ago
Its skin tastes like styrofoam and its turds resemble chicken fried steak
#19
My Grandmother And Uncle Next To Their Giant Homegrown Veg!
Teutonic Disaster 2 months ago
And here I am, with my handful of homegrown Hokkaidos and Butternuts, all the size of an average potato. 😆
UKGrandad 2 months ago
I love stuffed marrow but I'd need a bigger oven for one of those beasts.
JK 2 months ago
How does this remind me of a Monty Python skit? How do you cook it?
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doredde 2 months ago
Probably relatively bland, as most overgrown veggies.
Load More Replies... Uncle Schmickle 1 month ago
In the words of the old Vaudeville song : " Oh what a beauty. I've never seen one as big as that before ".
As both the small man in the country of Brobdingnag and the giant on the island of Lilliput, Lemuel Gulliver—the protagonist of Jonathan Swift's classic novel Gulliver's Travels—understood that size is relative, and this subreddit is proof of that.
#20
Size Of Orangutan
Serena Myers 2 months ago
Not necessarily. Orangs are not aggressive or considered dangerous.
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Marlene Ricker 1 month ago
He is so amazing!! They are cute from when they are babies on to adulthood!!
#21
Queen Mary 2 With Its Captain
Forrest Hobbs 2 months ago
Okay, I'll bite: can anyone figure out how to get on to that protrusion while keeping your nice white uniform all clean and dry and white? You'd have to lower yourself down from something, somehow, and I can't work it out.
Deborah B 2 months ago
He stepped onto the protrusion from the boat carrying the photographer. From the looks of the clean spot, someone scrubbed the algae off first, and there was probrably a little ramp, so he didn't slip and ruin his white clothes.
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Michael Largey 2 months ago
"Put it into top gear, crew. The Captain wants to go water-skiing."
R Dennis 2 months ago
Even if it's The Meg, this boat should be big enough. (I know, I know: "It'S a SHiP not a BoAt!" - pedants everywhere)
Load More Replies... Stephanie Fay 2 months ago
I think this might be a composite. I don't think those front ballast dealies some out of the water that much. Or at all.
Never Snarky 1 month ago
Yes, they do. I have seem a picture of a dancer, dancing on one.
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Swimming Along With The Blue Whale
Ronette Paige Manson 2 months ago
I may be about to nerd out but there was abtually a prehistoric creature larger than the blue whale- the Aust colossus. It's so cool but people don't really know much about it so I though I'd say because it's the largest creature to ever live on earth (that we know of) SO COOL!
#23
A Hammerhead Bat; Colloquially Known As A Winged Moose
Gordon 2 months ago
Yeah, bu the looks of it's head, it looks like a horse !
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Dogcat vet (retired) 2 months ago
Actually this bat was on an Expedition X show as a likely candidate for a stowaway Jersey Devil.
Astrid 2 months ago
I saw that. I definitely think they could be right. I can only imagine the horror of seeing that flying towards you at night. The wing span, red eye shine and the body shape. If you had no idea this animal existed you would create a cryptid in the eyes of others with your description.
Load More Replies... SchadenFreudian Psychology 2 months ago
That’s why people are scared of bats. I’m glad I’ve only ever seen the little, cute bats.
#24
Fruit Bats Are Way Bigger Than I Thought
tom (bat/man) 2 months ago
3 Jul 2025 · A northern New South Wales man has died after contracting the state's first confirmed case of Australian bat lyssavirus.
Shelley Dawson 2 months ago
I probably would be very startled and cautious if I came across one in the wild, but I think they are beautiful creatures. Nothing to be fraid of.
Tom Brincefield 2 months ago
You don't have to go to the wild. They swarm in the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, just SE of the Sydney Opera House. Bit of a nuisance, their droppings are everywhere.
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My Girlfriends Hand Next To A Great Danes Paw
UKGrandad 2 months ago
My dog stands about 8 inches at the shoulder. One of his favourite playmates is Dolly, a fully-grown Great Dane. It's a real joy watching them chasing and rolling around.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 2 months ago
Isn't it funny how small dogs love to get bowled around by bigger dogs? My cocker spaniel LOVES it when we run into her Bull Mastiff playmate. The mastiff weighs 4 - 5 times what my cocker weighs, yet my dog will run in again, and again, and again to get thrown around and chased by her. Small dogs... she doesn't even bother with.
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#26
The Smallest House In Great Britain. My Girlfriend In Front Is Only 5ft
Dusty's mom 2 months ago (edited)
https://www.visitwales.com/destinations/north-wales/10-brilliant-places-visit-conwy It said the last person to live in it was 6'3" (1.9m) tall.
Load More Replies... Colleen Glim 2 months ago
Ideal house for my oldest daughter. She tops out at 4’11”. Where does she sign up for offers?
Jasmin Lapan 2 months ago
Smallest “formal” house, because informal (illegal settlers) houses in our country are much smaller.
Fat Harry (Oi / You) 2 months ago
For anyone wondering, the Welsh underneath ("Y Tŷ Lleiaf Ym Mhrydain Fawr") is just "The Smallest House in Great Britain" again.
#27
Two People Sitting On The Abraj Al Bait Clocktower In Mecca
StrangeOne 2 months ago
I'm having intrusive thoughts about sliding forward too close to the edge and falling off.
Uncle Panda 2 months ago
What makes me uneasy on edges like that is that I'm not 100% certain I won't jump off.
#28
Baby Octopus, Thumb For Scale
Kira Okah 2 months ago
Working with animals can get dirty, dirty fingernails happen, the hours old octopuses are the important thing here.
Load More Replies... Shelley Dawson 2 months ago
Probably someone who works with his hands for a living, honest work. I prefer dirty hands to a nasty mind any day.
#29
One Of The Huge Rings They Used For Close-Up Shots In Lord Of The Rings
#30
A Photo Of The Old Cincinnati Library Taken Shortly Before It Was Razed. The Public Library Was Built In 1874 And Demolished In 1955; Today, It's A Parking Garage
Forrest Hobbs 2 months ago (edited)
The building was magnificent but turned out impractical: it suffered from book-damaging flooding, poor lighting, poor ventilation, a coal heating system that dropped soot on everything, poor fire safety, and other problems including not enough space for the books. https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/the-old-cincinnati-library-demolition-1874-1955/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Main_Library_(Cincinnati)
Load More Replies... Mike F 2 months ago
Folks pine over these old buildings "cuz pretty" but what most people don't take into account is how difficult it is to keep them upright and how incredibly expensive it is to just "run the plant" for a month. When they were built, most everything was significantly cheaper in part because the infrastructure that served them was quite new. As they aged the required upkeep became expensive (anyone who has a utility bill knows) with added fees for maintenance of the utility systems and the buildings alike. Retrofitting them to make it cheaper to operate is as costly or moreso than a replacement building that is designed to accommodate and protect the contents within it.
Kenny Kulbiski 2 months ago
Love books and libraries but what a hassle that must have been for a casual patron \ user.
Ron Man 2 months ago
It wasn't razed to make a parking lot, it was razed because it became unstable and dangerous. smh...
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Some Tigers Are Longer Then You Think
G A 2 months ago
Siberian Tigers are considerably bigger than most other sub species.
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#32
The African Land Snail
Börje Strömming 2 months ago
That is a huge one! Just got a couple of them a few weeks ago and biggest one is probably not more then half the size of that one.
Belladonna Wexhome 2 months ago
that's still pretty freakin big for a snail!!
Load More Replies... Edda Kamphues 2 months ago
Looks friendly enough. Bit of a hybrid between a rabbit and a snail?
JK 2 months ago
Yeah, how did the bunny trot to All Things Strange Home Stuff and buy the shell?
Load More Replies... G A 2 months ago
Becoming pests when owners release them into the wild and can transmit unpleasant diseases.
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Hippopotamuses 2 months ago
It looks like a it has a hippo head with antannae. Strange beasts, these.
#33
Cassowaries Can Grow To 5-6 Feet Tall With Some Females Reaching 6.6 Ft In Height
Belladonna Wexhome 2 months ago
why the klasfdjdsfjlkfdslj is she so close to that bird - they are literally redrum chickens!!
Remi (He/Him) 2 months ago
might be hand reared by her. Hopefully for her sake
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#34
Triceratops Femur On The Left And African Elephants Leg On The Right
G A 2 months ago
Triceratops was more of a medium sized dinosaur, too.....
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 2 months ago
We do not know if the woman in the centre is small or tall though.
Phantom Phoenix 2 months ago
If it helps, she's ~1½ African Elephant femurs tall
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#35
The Quetzalcoatlus Northropi, The Largest Known Flying Animal That Ever Existed!
Kira Okah 2 months ago
It may have been a bit shorter than this, our only specimen is fragmentary and its wingspan has been revised down. So probably easier than this picture looks, and it probably hunted on land, like a stork.
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Earonn - 2 months ago
No, both just found similar solutions to the problem of flying. Buts are mammals, this fella here is a reptile (but not a dinosaur).
Load More Replies... Stephanie Fay 2 months ago
There's some awesome "footage" of these guys on that David Attenborough dinosaur documentary. They show them with way bigger wings though. So crazy!!
geezeronthehill 2 months ago
No. That is convergent evolution right there. The ancestors of bats were still running around underfoot when this fellow flew.
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Beaver City, Nebraska Resident Audra Thomas Poses With A Category F-1 Tornado Near Her Family Farm (In Background) - Kodak Contest Winning Photo By Merrilee Thomas, 1989
Pa Pa Panda 2 months ago
To all the ones saying GTFO, if you can see the tornado moving left or right your OK it is when it appears to remain still then you GTFO (it is headed straight for you)
Nikki Sevven 1 month ago
Does she know that the top running speed of a human being is 28mph, while an F1 can move at 73-112mph?
geezeronthehill 2 months ago
For those of you freaking out; it's only an F1. I've been through 2 tornados, both much stronger than that one. You can tell which way they're moving, so she isn't in great danger if she has a fraidyhole nearby. .
#37
Solar Power Station In Chile With One Cell For Scale
#38
Whale Skull
#39
Hole Dug By A Giant Sloth, In Brazil
#40
Terms And Conditions Of Social Media Companies
Kira Okah 2 months ago
Dark blue is Facebook, yellow is Snapchat. Think the light blue is Twitter and the shorter pink one is Tinder. Looking at a page on the exhibit still only gives so much, here: https://mymodernmet.com/social-media-policy-infographics-dima-yarovinsky/
Load More Replies... anetteferreira82 2 months ago
Whatsapp, Google, Tinder, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram (in order from left to right) https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BWK5wZMRy/
Hippopotamuses 2 months ago
Facebook is my favourite. A few years ago, I decided to join Facebook, but changed my mind part way through the sign up. For years, they reminded me that I'd "forgotten" to accept the terms and conditions!
#41
The Size A Gorilla's Hand Compared To A Human
Roxy222uk 2 months ago
If you’re its keeper, maybe. Zoo animals are trained to present body parts, open their mouths, etc for treats so that if they are injured or ill it’s possible for the vet to examine them without causing them distress or having to anaesthetise them.
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persephone134 2 months ago (edited)
Poachers will hunt down and kílll an entire gorilla family to steal one baby. They will also hack off the hands of an adult gorilla to turn them into ashtrays.
Apachebathmat 2 months ago
There is a picture somewhere of me as a child, maybe 2 years old, with a gorilla on a bench at London zoo… yep, my parents were fine with that
#42
Giant South African Bullfrog
#43
It's Called A Ponderosa Lemon
Uncle Panda 2 months ago
On behalf of the former Musk Melons International, they decided to change their name to something less noxious. They prefer to be called ShitNuggets now.
Load More Replies... David 2 months ago
You should see Tehmani Etrog (Citron species original cultivated by the Jews of Yemen, today only grown in Israel). The one in the picture is a "medium" size, there are ones much bigger. The other smaller one in the picture is a standard citron size. esrogR-68e...35228a.jpg 
#44
Giant Bamboo In Sri Lanka
iseefractals 2 months ago
New shoots can grow 91cm (35in) in the span of 24 hours, 6 meters (20 feet) per week, reaching it's mature height of 24-30 meters (80-100 feet) in the span of a month or three. Bamboo also has better tensile and compressive strength compared to wood, only requires air drying for 6-12 weeks (with a borax treatment to drive off infestation) instead of the years long process of curing wood which often includes a heating step. Everything should be built out of bamboo
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Roni Stone 2 months ago
Funny frivolous fact - If I use my toes like that, I have foot spasms for a week.
#45
Horse Lungs
Becky Samuel 2 months ago
Another misleading photo as this is the lungs when they have been deliberately overinflated. They would never reach this size inside the chest.
#46
Sphinx From Above
Dave Baxter 2 months ago
That head is so clearly on a completely different scale, it's easy to see that it was once the neck supporting a much larger head which broke off in antiquity.
🇺🇦 🇵🇸 TribbleThinking 2 months ago
I agree. Do you think that it was a head that broke off or do you think it was some oik of a pharaoh who decided to vandalise it and replace it with his own likeness?
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Hugo 2 months ago
That horrifies me. When I was there in 1955 it was a donkey ride away from any kind of civilization.
Janissary35680 2 months ago
It's really distressing how much the suburbs of Cairo have been allowed to approach the site. It's horribly obvious in drone shots.
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A Sinkhole In Turkey
Geoffrey Scott 2 months ago
"Be careful harvesting that corn, pot hole about in the middle of the field". "
#48
The True Size Of The Curiosity Rover
Teutonic Disaster 2 months ago
To be fair, they've grown a bunch https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia11431-size-comparison-three-generations-of-mars-rovers/
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#49
Mos Espa Grand Arena (Phantom Menace)
Jedi Panda 2 months ago
A Dune Sea Giant. They rarely get that close to settlements, but it can happen.
Load More Replies... Roxy222uk 2 months ago
Weren’t the individuals in the crowds all painted cotton buds being jiggled? One of the last great in camera effects before CGI took the heart out of so many films.
David 2 months ago
they used that for the crowd, and enhanced it with CGI. TPM overused CGI, but they wanted to showcase how far the tech had gotten, but they still used a mix of practical and CGI back then, unlike today
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The Largest Statue In The World, The Statue Of Unity In India, Is Four Times Taller Than The Statue Of Liberty
Zephyr343 2 months ago
I mean when you're dealing with stone that large the hard hats are just for decoration
Forrest Hobbs 2 months ago
Zephyr343: the hard hats always have a use. There's a lot of stuff on any big construction site that can fall or workers could bash their heads into. See all those ladders and scaffolding? There's a small crane used for lifting smaller things visible. Of course dropping a big block would kíll anyone it landed on, so they're very very careful about that side of things (well, maybe - Indian constructions sites aren't famous for following all the regulations all the time. 😬)
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keyboardtek 2 months ago
Thousands of people starving in India and the government spends money building a giant statue. What is wrong with humans?
#51
Turns Out I Had No Idea How Big Wombats Are
Becky Samuel 2 months ago
This particular wombat was the largest ever recorded by some margin.
Uncle Schmickle 1 month ago
Yeah, they're cuddly alright, but can wreck your car if you hit one at night.
#52
This Lion That Was Carved From A Huge Redwood Tree
Kira Okah 2 months ago
Annoyingly, the source of the wood is unknown, can only hope that the tree was sick or dying. The statue was made in China, so I assume that it is a metasequoia, which are fast growing unlike giant redwoods.
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#53
Ancient Armadillo Fossils Discovered In Argentina
Khavrinen 2 months ago
"Glyptodo, or Glyptodo not. There is no Glypto-try." -- GlyptoYoda.
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Bear Compared To Average Person
Peter Bear 2 months ago
And there are still people that think they could take a bear one-on-one...
Zephyr343 2 months ago
Maybe a koala bear but I still dont hold out much hope
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Jossh Nine 1 month ago
If it's black, fight back; if it's brown, lie down ; if it's white, say goodnight.
#55
Bison Getting His Ear Tagged
Patrick Wells 1 month ago
He is being tagged so he can be identified as one of a gang of bisons that have been picking on other bisons. It's quite a problem in New York State because apparently Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
#56
Just Vibin
SchadenFreudian Psychology 2 months ago
I hope so! That was a stupid stunt.
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G A 2 months ago
To stop him falling or jumping on cars or people, or to stop people crashing when watching him and not where they are going. Fairly obvious, really.
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Salt Mines Of Garmsar, Iran
Joanne Hicks 1 month ago
Hutchinson, Kansas, USA has a working saltmine that does public tours.
#58
An Easter Island Head Fully Excavated
G A 2 months ago
These are believed to have been 'walked' into place, like you do with heavy furniture.
marianne eliza 2 months ago
Documentary done with people demonstrating the "walk". Ropes tied up around neck area. Statue tipped slightly side to side while other ropes pull it slightly forward with each tip. Bottom right moves forward, then bottom left, and back and forth. You can see some along the roads used for moving them that fell over and couldn't be righted so just left there.
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#59
Human Hand Compared To That Of A Polar Bear
#60
Found A Really Big Worm, Used My Sister For Scale
#61
Petra In South Jordan
#62
College Basketball Players And The Cheerleaders, Both Are Humans For Scale
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This Dress Was Wore By Queen Victoria. I Didn’t Know She Was So Small!
Belladonna Wexhome 2 months ago
I don't think this is true - She was 5'0" tall - this looks like it was made for a child.
Janissary35680 2 months ago (edited)
ANTIPHOLUS: What's her name? DROMIO: Nell, sir; but her name and three quarters–that's an ell and three quarters–will not measure her from hip to hip. ANTIPHOLUS: Then she bears some breadth? DROMIO: No longer from head to foot than from hip to hip: she is spherical, like a globe. (Shakespeare, “Comedy of Errors” Act 3 Scene 2)
Load More Replies... Kira Okah 2 months ago
She was around 4'11"/5' tall, though if this is a dress from the end of her life she may have been shorter. I'm 4'10", so around my height.
Load More Replies... Serena Myers 2 months ago
She was only 4' 8" or 4' 11", depending on sources, but very short.
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King Alfred's Tower
Forrest Hobbs 2 months ago
An 18th century folly in England that's got nothing to do with the legendary King Alfred - but never mind: https://allthatsinteresting.com/king-alfreds-tower and https://thirdeyetraveller.com/king-alfreds-tower-stourhead/
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This Camera Was Used For Aerial Photos During Wwii
Serena Myers 2 months ago
And there's me that struggles to lift a 13lb (5.897kgs) reluctant cat to put him in his box to go to the vet while trying to avoid being scratched!
Dogcat vet (retired) 2 months ago
You might try putting the cat in a pillow case first and have him go in backwards
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Crazy Horse Memorial. South Dakota
Vexed Panda 2 months ago
I'm having a hard time believing he'd want nature carved to honor him.
Raymond Core 2 months ago
Yeah, he was known as the 'Greta Thunberg' of his day. /sarc
Load More Replies... Bi.Felicia 2 months ago
The Crazy Horse Memorial is a massive, still-under-construction mountain carving in the Black Hills of South Dakota, dedicated to the Oglala Lakota warrior Crazy Horse and honoring all Indigenous people of North America. The project began in 1948 and is privately funded through donations and fees. The sculpture depicts Crazy Horse on a horse, with the final dimensions planned to be 563 feet high and 641 feet long, making it the world's largest mountain carving upon completion.
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Banana Tree Leaf
#68
Wind Turbine Maintenance
meeeeeeeeeeee 2 months ago
My brain can't work out what is happening with the thing on the right in this image
Forrest Hobbs 2 months ago
The thing on the right is one blade of the turbine. Two are fitted. Presumably, the ring of "sticky out things" are threaded studs/bolts which attach the blade to the turbine hub. I'd guess that the encrustation visible on the detached blade is snow or ice, looking at the landscape below. The standing structure looks new, so I'd guess that the blade is being moved into position for installation.
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Janissary35680 2 months ago (edited)
There''s a plant in a free zone not far from where I live where the blades are manufactured. They are HUGE. When an order is shipped, it's one set of blades per flatbed truck and there usually are numerous trucks. The road has to be closed and the convey accompanied by a police escort.
Forrest Hobbs 2 months ago (edited)
Janissary35680: what you're seeing are relatively small blades. With the big blades, it's one per truck. I've just checked the specs for one modern big wind turbine - rotor diameter 175m (574 ft). Assuming 10m for the hub diameter (a guess), that means each blade is about 82.5 m (271 ft) long. Trucking them along ordinary roads is not at all easy. Here's a video of a 57.5m blade being taken along a road in Scotland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTpZ5V4HrK4. Also: https://www.windsystemsmag.com/nrel-determines-how-to-transport-wind-turbine-blades/
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Giant Manta Ray Captured On The Coast Of New Jersey In 1933
Kira Okah 2 months ago (edited)
This is a taxidermy of the ray. It got stuck on the anchor line and had to the put down humanely.
Load More Replies... Kira Okah 2 months ago (edited)
They are endangered, yes, but not extinct, hardly the last given they still exist and this photo is 90 years old. This guy got stuck on an anchor line and had to be put down.
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76,000-Tonne Bulk Carrier 'Pasha Bulker' Stranded. (Highest Quality Re-Upload)
Bi.Felicia 2 months ago
the MV Pasha Bulker, a bulk carrier ship that ran aground at Nobbys Beach in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, on June 8, 2007. The ship was stranded during a major storm while waiting offshore to load coal. The storm caused widespread flooding, strong winds, and high seas in the area. All 22 crew members were safely evacuated by helicopter. The vessel was successfully refloated on July 2, 2007, and towed to Japan for major repairs.
Jossh Nine 1 month ago
Wow!! Thank you. I thought it was two different photos and was wondering what the bottom pic had to do with the first....i may have been hi gh at the time 😆
Load More Replies... Ace 2 months ago
Yeah, no. That's mostly just an illusion down to a long lens, a bit like the forced perspective used in some movies. And as bulk carrier ships go, that's not particularly large,
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 2 months ago (edited)
It was pretty blo.ody big, actually. This happened in my part of the world and saw it with my own eyes.
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This Garbage Basket
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Giant Container Ship Blocking The Suez Canal Today
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Scale Model For 1997 Movie 'Titanic'
G A 2 months ago
That's for the scene when it transformed into a submarine in the Michael Bay version
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Tsunami Tetrapod Barriers
Rali Meyer 2 months ago
Dolos. Invented in South Africa. The more they move, the more they interlock. Like anchors
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Here's A Swimmer Holding On To A Giant Underwater Boat Propeller
Geoffrey Scott 2 months ago
Our 210' Coast guard cutter in dry dock in Mobile Al in the 80's. Blades on props were variable pitch, meaning the blades themselves could rotate on the hub. Also, tied up in the Mobile River prior to dry dock, a smaller fully laden tanker came up during my midnight watch and our ship rose 5-6 feet, moved forward, then dropped and moved backwards. Learned displacement theory that night.
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The Evolution Of Jet Airliner Engine Sizes, From The Douglas Dc8 To The Boeing 777
Ace 2 months ago
I always liked this picture, of a 777's engine next to a 737 fuselage, and engine. Clipboard0...631079.jpg 
DC 2 months ago
It's not just size of the engine. The inner engine, core engine, hasn't grown nearly as much, but the more modern ones are Turbofan engines, having a huge fan in the front (basically, a propeller in a housing with as many blades as fit), that usually is about twice the diameter of the cor engine's compressor wheels and aims at increasing efficiency. The air flows around the inner engine, creates additional thrust, but isn't involved in combustion, that only happens in the inner engine. Core engine. Without this shift in technology in mind, the size comparison may be misleading, as the growth in diameter is real, no doubt, but it isn't the size of equivalent parts that has grown that far.
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Christ The Redeemer Getting Some Maintenance For Its 90th Birthday
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Street Light And My Mom
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