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Now and then, it's good for us all to shake up our perspective. We each have our own unique lenses formed through various experiences - but this list of side-by-side comparison photos might make you look at the world differently.
Sure we have all seen before-and-after pictures, maybe between old and young or weight loss, but these aren't the only awe-inspiring cool photos. What about different locations during different seasons? Or size comparisons of creatures and their anatomy? Or even some good stories with rough starts and the best possible outcomes? This Bored Panda interesting things round-up will include all of these and more, and it is sure to challenge your perspective. Don't forget to upvote your favorites!
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Then And Now: Cancer Patient vs. Cancer Survivor
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The Day After Asher Was Adopted In 2012 vs. Today
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A Friend On Facebook Shared This Slide From Her Class. The Difference Between Urban, Suburban, And Rural
#4
Chinese Explorer Zheng He's Ship Compared To Christopher Columbus' Santa Maria. They Both Lived In The Same Era
Lil Bare 6 years ago
There were even junks that had built-in-rice-farms to nourish the travellers. Ancient china was so rich in culture and technology (4 big inventions) and then all went to hell in the last 300 years. What a pity. Never be complacent people. Its the road to self detonation :(
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Carol Emory 6 years ago
The Zheng He emperor actually had 3 of these ships...all capable of holding 300,000 Chinese. They also had the ability to round the horn of Africa before the Portuguese did. Can you imagine how history would have changed if China had managed to pull into the harbors of Europe? They were originally built to masquerade as vessels searching for Zheng He's brother, the former emperor that was thought to have fled during an attack, but actually fled to the hills where he was killed by his own brother. The ships were actually merchant ships that obtained items all around Asia and Africa to bring back to the Emperor for his private collection. When he passed, his replacement saw no need for the ships anymore and had them destroyed.
Harleen 6 years ago
So Columbus pulled up next to him and yelled, "Thou art compensating for thine diminutive nether regions!"
Louise Stange-Wahl 6 years ago
Sad that we never hear about these spectacular feats of engineering unless you happen upon it. Looks to me that the Europeans could have learned a lot from the Chinese!
Joseph Miller 5 years ago
The only thing that can be learned from this is that chinese propaganda is strong and based on falsehoods, and that they're always trying to compensate. This ship was a treasure ship, and not nearly as seaworthy as Columbus's. Also, it was made to show off, not for exploring. Lastly, most non-Chinese historians and scientists agree that it wasn't nearly as big as Chinese historians say, and there's a lot of online resources on this matter.
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Fixin'Ta 6 years ago
Yeah, I've been on a replica of the Santa Maria. Thing was TINY. I don't see how they even made the voyage across the Atlantic, much less with a full crew.
María Hermida 6 years ago
Me too, and I thought exactly the same. Lots of people in such small space, rationed water, no showers... Absolutely claustrophobic and stinky. The smell must have been obnoxious.
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Kelly 6 years ago
Landing in the so-called America, followed by "Amerigo" Vespucci. They reached far away lands, it seems they didn't get lost.
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Michał Jastrzębski 6 years ago
yep. And it was just one of ships in that guys armada too, lol
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Kathy Baylis 6 years ago
Carrier vs rowboat. For long voyages like theirs, I would much prefer the larger ship. Though it probably needed more crew, it would also have so much more room for supplies.
Joseph Miller 5 years ago
Actually, non-Chinese scientists and historians have proven this is b.s. and it wasn't nearly that big. Big, yes, and impressive, yes, but don't be fooled by typical chinese propaganda and lies. Also, it wasn't build for exploring, just showing off, while Columbus's ship was made for exploring.
Greg Hoggarth 6 years ago
There's a real-life replica of Captain Cook's Endeavor which toured New Zealand back in the early 2000's. Surprisingly small ship by modern standards, yet he sailed from England in it.
Kenneth Mlavetz 5 years ago
It’s thought that several Chinese ships of this size made it to North America. It’s also theorized the reason none where found Is they tore them apart and built houses.
Thomas Pilley 6 years ago
Makes more sense for explorer ships to be smaller to cover more area faster. Not to mention they are wind driven. Pretty impressive size for back then.
Quillermo Pellicaan 6 years ago
It is not the size that marters, but it's about having the balls to go further than the others....
Calum Sanderson 6 years ago
This is one of the reasons I preferred the third Pirates of the Caribbean film out of the original trilogy - I want more Chinese piracy!
Andrew Joseph 6 years ago
lmao........ & Christopher Columbus is revered soo much................. jeez
Elizabeth Gardner 6 years ago
good grief his ship is enormous even by today's standards of local craft.
Margaret O'Connor 6 years ago
Well you know what they way about guys who drive huge trucks: he must have been really compensating for something! Besides, he wasn't an explorer; all he did was creep along the coast.
Elizabeth Scarborough 6 years ago
The Mayflower was tiny as well. I don't understand why Europe made such small ships and China cold make these massive Ocean Liners.
Shirley Heyn 6 years ago
Well, they did have more sailors to work with. . . but if you line up the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria, they might be about the same length, but maybe not width. Where did they sail to?
Sebastian Melmoth 6 years ago
Neither of them...Santa Maria never made it to America; well...he did land on parts of Central and South American coasts as well as Cuba,Hispaniola, Bahamas, and many small islands. He didn’t make it to North America and isn’t as great as US teachers led us to believe. he was somewhat of a tyrannical k**b who was stripped of his titles and died in relative obscurity.
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Leo Petipas 6 years ago
Look up Zheng He and the description of his fleet and army.
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Jack Chandra 6 years ago
Just read the Wikipedia entry on the huge boat. First mention of the dimensions of the ship was 100 years after they were destroyed - no contemporary accounts. The size of this boat would exceed the size of steel reinforced wooden boats from the 19th century - raising serious engineering doubts it could ever be built.
María Hermida 6 years ago
I lived in Hong Kong for a year and I saw seemingly impossible structures with very basic materials. They make very high scaffolds, and I mean veeery high, only with bamboo cane and rope. And there are a lot of old buildings made of wood, only wood, without using nails. I'm not an engineer so I don't know anything about structures, but they were extremely ingenious and made very good use of the available materials. Bamboo is an exeptionally resistant material, and yet very light. As far as I know there are some contemporary documents on this ship, but I'll check my sources.
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But there was another thing the Western world had, and had way before anyone else, just a few centuries later: the application of Newtonian physics to ballistics. Once you have that you have guns and cannons that actually hit things. (See this Ted Talk: https://n.pr/32ic6de). A big ship? In terms of military power, so what? The British triumphed in the naval battle of The Spanish Armada precisely by having smaller, more nimble, but deadly attack vessels.
Grumble O'Pug 6 years ago
Yeah but he didn't come over to the new world and pillage it or rape little girls did he????
Jeff Requier 6 years ago
Zheng He's ship would be the size of a cruise ship or tanker. a to scale model of the Santa maria is in the West Edmonton mall. He had a normal sized ship for the time.
Not Bored Panda 6 years ago (edited)
Name is Zheng He, part of the last name "He" and 's meaning possession. So He's mean He (last name) is the possessor of the Ship.
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Aahzmandus Pervect 6 years ago
Zheng He, that's the name of the Chinese explorer.
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Not Bored Panda 6 years ago
Zheng He is the name , possessive version of the last name is He's , since the Ship belongs to him.
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#5
Ski Trail Sign In Summer vs. In Winter
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We Have Two Skinny Cats, And One Fat One
#7
The Difference 11 Days Can Make For This Maple Tree
kristy sickles 6 years ago
11 more days and they will be dark purple! Love maples in the fall!
#8
B2 Stealth Bomber Compared To A Falcon
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My Wife’s Face On Our Wedding Day Compared To When She Met Rob
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Movie vs. Real Life
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Size Comparison Of My Maine Coon To My American Shorthair
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My Brother And His Friend, Both Age 13. We Loved The Difference In Height
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The Size Of A Tornado Compared To The Size Of Wind Turbines
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At The Beach vs. Cleaning Feet After
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Coming Home vs. Leaving
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Smoker vs. Non-Smoker
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Barcelona During The Day vs. During The Night
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Graphics Then vs. Graphics Now
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Nearly 25 Years After The Fall Of The Berlin Wall, The Difference In Types Of Light Bulbs Can Still Be Seen From Space
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Shark’s Brain vs. Dolphin’s Brain
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World's Smallest Computer Compared To A Grain Of Rice
Withnail 6 years ago
This computer measures 0.33mm on each side! According to my pal Google: "Currently, the tiny computer serves as a precision temperature sensor. It uses electronic pulses to convert temperatures into timed intervals. The result, for example, is the ability to report temperatures in a cluster of cells within a tumor with an error rate of around 0.1 degrees Celsius. 'Since the temperature sensor is small and biocompatible, we can implant it into a mouse and cancer cells grow around it,' said Gary Luker, a professor of radiology and biomedical engineering. 'We are using this temperature sensor to investigate variations in temperature within a tumor versus normal tissue and if we can use changes in temperature to determine success or failure of therapy.' https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/worlds-smallest-computer-dwarfed-by-rice-grain/
#22
Fluffy Corgi vs. Regular Coat
Juliana Kessler 6 years ago
Breed standards were a byproduct of the eugenics movement in the 19th century. (See https://www.trutv.com/shows/adam-ruins-everything/videos/pure-bred-dogs-are-genetic-monsters.html it's a tv Episode but they give all their citations) Genetic hybrids are healthier and usually super cute!
#23
Human Skeleton Compared To Gorilla Skeleton
#24
We Live Next To The Ocean, Here's The Comparison Between The Outside And Inside Doorknob
Toujin C'Thlu 6 years ago
The outside doorknob can double as a salt lick for any passing deer or cows.
#25
Eagle Claws Are Pretty Big Even In Comparison With Mammalian Predators
#26
Microscopic Look At Bee Stinger vs. Needle
#27
You Can See The Difference Between The Tap Water And The Sparkling Water That I Poured Over It
#28
The Difference Between A Norwegian Soldier 75 Years Ago And Today
#29
Japan’s Highest Bridge’s Height Is Compared To Godzilla
#30
Before And After Comparison Pics Of A Street In Surf City, NC After Florence
Wil Vanderheijden 6 years ago
And then there's one president denying climate chance, withdrawing from the Paris Agreement and allowing American companies to continue or even to expand their environmentally-polluting activities. Because climate change is invented by the Chinese to harm American competitiveness.
#31
My Jeans vs. My Wife’s Jeans. I’m 6’ 3”and She’s 5’ 2”
#32
Whenever Somebody Posts A Photo Of The Milky Way, People Invariably Ask "Is That How You See It With The Naked Eye?". Here's A Representation Of What You Do See Compared To What Comes Out Of The Camera
This photo was taken at the Pinnacles Desert in Western Australia, the moon had just set below the horizon and the core of the Milky Way was rising towards the east and was at about 40 degrees. This obviously isn't a perfect representation but it's pretty close. You won't see any color as our eyes can't determine color very well in low light.
The photo you see on the left is directly out of the camera, no post processing has been done at all and you can see quite a bit of green towards the horizon and some orange and magenta hues in the core. My camera's white balance was set to auto and this is a 30 second exposure. ISO was set at 3200 and aperture was f2.8.
edit Ok it seems some people are able to distinguish color in the Milky Way and some aren't. Though it's more common to not see any color. I did quite a bit of research and almost every time this question was posed, people had varying views on what they could and couldn't see. No color - some color - lots of color. So I came to the conclusion that there are just too many variables to accurately depict what you can see, you can only approximate what the average person can see. Yes, some will see it more vividly, some will see it less vividly but the average person will see it similarly to what I showed in my photo. Oh and of course the location plays a large factor.........not everybody is able to sail 100 miles off shore to get the absolute best view possible so it's a bit pointless to use that as the standard bearer :) One other factor you should bear in mind is the technology we choose to portray these images on. Computer monitors. Again there are way too many variables at play here, especially when it comes to contrast and brightness. What I see on my computer monitor is most likely to be different to what another person sees.
#33
Earth Compared To Its Water And Air
#34
Stairs Built In 1829 vs. 2005
#35
View From My House Of California Normal vs. California With Fires
#36
My Mom’s Phone From 1998 vs. My Phone From 2018
#37
'Chernobyl' Actors vs. The Real-Life People They Played
#38
The Comparison Of Right Handed And Left Handed People At My High School
#39
$10 vs. $400 Lightsaber
#40
Shoe That Is On The Longboard vs. The Shoe That Does All The Pushing
#41
Ken 1985 vs. Ken 2018
#42
The Tan Of My Hand Compared To My Foot
#43
My Mood Every Day During 2018 Compared To 2017
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Size Of The Moon Compared To USA
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LuckyL 6 years ago
again one, where I was whishing for the link "here are more pictures that we tok out of the post"
Lauren Caswell 6 years ago
Were there more than 44 earlier? I only just now scrolled this one
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Elise Pimenta 6 years ago
This was pretty cool. It's interesting to see how things have changed over the years, especially if they have changed for the better like the graphics for video games. Also interesting to see comparisons between things like the claws/talons for the animals.
LuckyL 6 years ago
again one, where I was whishing for the link "here are more pictures that we tok out of the post"
Lauren Caswell 6 years ago
Were there more than 44 earlier? I only just now scrolled this one
Load More Replies... Elise Pimenta 6 years ago
This was pretty cool. It's interesting to see how things have changed over the years, especially if they have changed for the better like the graphics for video games. Also interesting to see comparisons between things like the claws/talons for the animals.
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