50 Photos Of Gigantic Things That Are Big “Nopes” For Anyone With Megalophobia (New Pics)

It's absolutely majestic!

Mind-boggling. Apparently, the locals just call it Vatnið - "the lake". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8rv%C3%A1gsvatn

How do you even get a shot like that? Amazed. Spectacular!

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Taken over a longish timespan, probably several hours.

No need for a banana here! 🦌 Mr Moose makes the trees look like alders 🌱

I'd love to see that in real life - while standing on solid, rocky ground.

Magnificent 🕊💫

Kelvin-Helmholz clouds or fluctus clouds. Beautiful but tiny bit scary..

Way beyond breathtaking!! 💚💙

Gonna be a hard pass from me, thanks

The Kelpies are a pair of monumental steel horse-heads between the Scottish towns of Falkirk and Grangemouth. They stand next to the M9 motorway and form the eastern gateway of the Forth and Clyde Canal, which meets the River Carron here. Each head is 30 metres (98 ft) high.

I've been there (technically, I was on a bus that dropped someone off at a chalet there in the middle of the night)

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Seriously, why does he have manacles on his ankles? What's the reason for keeping this animal in captivity?

Wow! is that a Citroen CV2? Haven't seen one of those since French 'art' movies in the 60's.

Just plain gorgeous.

Built by order of president Abdoulaye Wade, on a hill that is part of the "Deux Mamelles" (the boobs). Not kidding. It was meant to inspire an age of pan-African union, prosperity and emancipation, kickstarting a new engineering industry in Senegal. In reality, it was shoddily built by North Korean workforce, at twice the original budget -a steep 27 million Euros- curb-stomping the economy of the country that already was in a difficult economic crisis. It made a lot of people angry because of the nudity (smart choice in a predominantly muslim and conservative country), and because at the same time a plan to bring electricity and freshwater to the very same area was scrapped because of lack of funding. The funding was in great part diverted from UN foreign aid. To make everything more idiotic, president Wade shortly before being ousted signed a bill recognizing his own efforts in designing the monument, so he awarded himself to perpetual royalties -35%- from touristic revenues.

Slowly, deliberately, and with an amazing knowledge of air flow and ventilation.

Not sure why these are on a "megalophobia" list - surely they're just the right size, and gorgeous?

I went up there! The city is beautiful from up high!

Þrídrangaviti Lighthouse (Thrídrangaviti without the Icelandic alphabet). https://icelandmag.is/article/watch-incredible-video-stunning-thridrangar-lighthouse-south-iceland

At least they're prepared!¡🤯

And boy would it look cool, though it'd probably play merry hell with Earth's gravity.

Devised in the 1950s, approved in 1992, originally scheduled for completion in 1999, then pushed to 2009. Construction begun in only 2008 when German construction and metalworking companies were brought in to solve major design issues -shifting the design away from rope & pulley to rack & pinion- and it was ultimately opened in 2016. German engineers from EMA Indutec had to develop a new process of metal hardening that allowed hardening penetration five times the usual thickness, as well as novel quality control processes, to deal with the enormous stress the rack and pinions has to bear.

Is it ticklish?

For context, our galaxy is approximately 100,000 light year across. That means light, traveling at 186,000 miles per second, would take 100,000, years to travel from one edge of the galaxy to the other.

Incredible!

Once?

FE FI FO FUM...

Who looks at that and says "yes! That is where I want to build!"

Yeah I'd rather not...

Val Trompia, close to Brescia, along the Mella river. It's an industrial area, mostly ironworking, foundries and small weapons manufacturing. The road you see there used to be known as "the Road of Steel". Not really a nice place to visit during the day.

Nope!

Probably not hidden for long. If someone can find a way to exploit it, they will

Nice photo.

Nope nope nope

What are they? They are similar shape to rhubarb, but obviously not that.

Is that a holodeck?

Sometimes, the design engineers have to just hope a particular natural event doesn't hit.

The climb up to it might be tricky, but again - megalophobia? Not sure - looks like a lovely homely place once you're there.

Very under the rec dot. That's one of the super structures of galaxies. There are millions of galaxies in that picture and our galaxy is probably 1/100000 the size of the red dot on scale.

I don't see lion. I see disgusted bird of prey

It's wearing chainmail, ready for the joust!

Water spout?

Ugh my knees hurt looking at that

The correct term would be "as late as 29,000 years ago". But, even that's wrong. The oldest woolly rhino fossils are 3.7 million years old, and the last living species went extinct about 14,000 years ago

That looks like a set from any Star Wars movie you could name

tl;dr:: rig being towed for scrapping, high winds tore it loose from the tug boat. More here: https://gcaptain.com/maib-publishes-investigation-report-into-transocean-winner-grounding/, https://weather.com/news/news/drilling-rig-runs-ashore-scottish-coast, https://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/09/europe/oil-rig-scotland-storm/index.html

It's apparently a deceptive shot of the air-con units attached to apartments in this development: https://smdc.com/properties/shore-residences/

As amazing as that picture is it still doesn't capture the scale. The redwoods are pure magic. You can spend a year looking at every picture you can find and you'll still be shocked when. You actually see it. The crazy part is 100ft from this tree is another as big, almost as big or bigger.

Got to love megafauna, just so long as it's not chasing you.

More like the foundation depth of a skyscraper. The walls are there for retainment of soil. The foundations are not in place yet.

I looked at this bridge and for some strange reason the "Thomas the tank engine " theme popped into my head???

162 meters tall, 531.5 feet.

And WHY?

Try to temove that, Arthur!

Creepy pic.

Bloody big monkey holding banana needed for scale

If this shot were taken a hundred feet farther up, you could see me in my car waiting 6 1/2 hours to get across the tracks.

What if that was a really big tree that someone cut down and it turned to stone?

Completely devoid of any sort of soul

Now, we can see it!

Suddenly the idea of being sent to the salt mines doesn't seem so bad.

Just needs some viagra

This is giving Thor vibes.....when he found hulk in that fighting arena hotel thingy....