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40 Photos With Humans For Scale To Show Just How Big Stuff Really Is, As Shared On This Twitter Page
If you’re tired of measuring everything in geese feet and kidney stones—that’s what the imperial system measures things with, right?—then there’s a new alternative to this, and that is humans.
Yep, humans have become a new measuring scale for things, no matter big or small. You just need to make sure one such human is in frame of whatever colossal or minuscule thing that you are taking a picture of and wham! you got a picture with a human for scale.
Wait, what…? The metric system? Don’t be silly.
Anywho, turns out, there is a Twitter page dedicated to sharing photographs with mostly gargantuan, but sometimes teeny-tiny structures, items or beings with a human conveniently somewhere in the visual composition so that you can grasp the scale of things.
Bored Panda has compiled a list of the best tweets published by the Twitter account into a neat little list that you can find below. And if you’re going down that way, do click every single upvote button along the way (OK, well, not every single one, but definitely the ones you like, and definitely click, because smashing it might cause irreversible damage to your human interface device of choice).
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Fat Harry 3 years ago
Clydesdales *are* big, but they're not as big as this picture suggests. I think this is quite a small woman. Clydesdales aren't normally more than 18 - 19 hands and, while that's still very tall for a horse, it's not as gigantic as it looks here.
StrangeOne 3 years ago
Isn't there horses 20-22 hands? I believe the Shire horse is the largest horse breed.
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Misty-Dawn Amayi 3 years ago
Clydesdale horses average at about 6 feet from front hoof to top of shoulder. This doesn't include their enormous heads and necks, or the fact that one can pick you up by your pants with their teeth and carry or toss you for a few feet. Thankfully, these giants are as gentle and sweet-tempered as they come. If you want to see adorable awkwardness, look at pictures or videos of Clydesdale foals.
Deb Simpson 3 years ago
I feel like that person is below average height even tho Clydesdales are huge.
Sherri Mantooth Bagwell 3 years ago
The Clydesdales stayed on our farm during a horse show when I was a kid. I remember going into the barn & being amazed at not only at their size, but the size of their feed trough.
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CelticElff 3 years ago
I had a 4' 11" aunt marry my 6' 9" uncle. It was comical. They have 3 kids who are between 5' 8" and 6' 2".
Wondering Alice 3 years ago
Seriously dxisy, why go there? Celtic clearly talking about adults. Don't over use that term in jest.
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Headless Roach 3 years ago
Saved me 20s looking this up. Thanks. I can now spend 20s writing this comment.
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Carla Phillips 3 years ago
My hubby is 6'7. I'm 5'4. I feel this picture. He's good for getting things on high shelves but has no idea that the world actually exists beneath his knees.
Sue User 3 years ago
That was my mom and dad. 5'3 and 6'6. She would buy him pants by holding them under her chin and of the were at tops of her feet, they were long enough.
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Stephanie A Mutti 3 years ago
The picture of Shaq next to Simone Biles is crazy!!! He looks like he could eat her.
Thorsten Massow 3 years ago
Still need banana for scale, because none of the " ' make any sense for us outside the US.
Llama_flower93 3 years ago
Canadians also use feet and inches for height of people. I don't know why.
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Sans Serif 3 years ago
Agreed! The door frame likely being 6' 8" makes that hard to believe.
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The visual difference is a lot greater that I would have expected.
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deanna woods 3 years ago
There was a guy that shot at a cactus like this and one of the arms fell off and crushed him to death.
Jef Bateman 3 years ago
These resemble saguaros, but are actually organ pipe cacti. You can tell because they have multiple arms all reaching up rather than a trunk with side branches. They are also in the Sonoran Desert, but tend to be more common further south than saguaros.
Babs McGurk 3 years ago
My favorite place on earth! Hubs and I went there a few years ago, and sat on a bench listening to nothing but nature for 20 minutes. Heavenly!
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Nathan Pogorzala 3 years ago
And in the states (arizona) if you harm a saguaro, it's an arrestable offense.
Alain Terrieur 3 years ago
I learned from a tv show this week that some type of cactus (not sure if it is the same as on the picture) takes 75 years before growing an 'arm' (branch)!
Nazda Pokmov 3 years ago
It takes approx 150 years for this cactus to grow one arm....so imagine how old this guy must be!!!
According to Twitter, the Human For Scale page was created earlier this year (in April of 2022, for those reading this in the future. Also, hi, leave a comment letting us know if cars can fly yet). In that time, it has managed to amass quite a following—105,000 followers as of this article.
The name of the Twitter page more or less says it all, but the additionally provided description adds that it's dedicated to photos that feature humans to “aid the eye in determining the size of things.”
However, you could argue that there is more to it as the contents of the page often display photos of unusually, incredibly, or surprisingly large things, next to which a human looks like a 13-pixel speck you’d be inclined to scratch off your monitor thinking it’s your sibling’s dried-up spit bubble. So, be amazed!
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Dan Flo 3 years ago
As a Swede, I love Jim Gaffigans take on the Vasa Museum: "It was a ship museum, but it only had one ship, so it felt more like a ship garage. But that one ship, the Vasa ship, sunk on its maiden voyage in Stockholm’s harbor in the 1700’s, which is not good, but that’s the largest attraction in Sweden. Most countries, their big attraction is a design marvel like the Sydney Opera House or the Eiffel Tower, but Sweden was like, “Here’s our boat that didn’t float. This is why we make furniture. That, ironically, floats."
Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago
Unfortunately, this beautiful ship barely made it out of port when it capsized and sunk in the gap at the Tegelviken Bluggs. All but 30 members of the crew and guests survived. The sinking of the Vasa is attributed to its faulty design, which was said to be unstable (crank): https://www.vasamuseet.se/en/explore/vasa-history/disaster#
Inga Paškevičiūtė 3 years ago
Same here. I was blown away by its size and the carvings. Just wow
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Karen Grace 3 years ago
I would love to see up close how it was constructed. The methods for woodworking from back then are fascinating.
Nonna_SoF 3 years ago
That depends. Did she heel into or out of her turn before joining the submarine arm?
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Wondering Alice 3 years ago
Cheers Nevid, something different to keep me awake.
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Hill Branda 3 years ago
Holy CR*P. If I saw that in my yard, I'd run of it. Which is silly, because I'm pretty sure I don't need to run from a snail.
Slinkaste 3 years ago
They are pretty fast if they want. Believe me. I have one at home.
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Yoga Kitty 3 years ago
Serious question: Are they affectionate? I mean, this one at least seems to be fine with being held like that but do they know their humans? Do they like to cuddle or are they more like "Thanks for the salad, now leave me alone!"?
Channon Doughty 3 years ago
My sister had an aquatic snail for a while. He would eat from any of us, but for her, he'd go to her hands. He loved it when she rubbed his shell and would bob along with her. He was super cool. Slimington was his name.
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Nazda Pokmov 3 years ago
He is huge. A full photo would have been nice instead of just his head
Tuna Bear 3 years ago
https://m.facebook.com/brettonwoodsnh/photos/a.10150179741345232/10150179741700232/?type=3&source=43&paipv=0&eav=AfZmSyS94n_ncSG85XOsYEA6pFltoHpsRT4SHwqhiGGGwE5FCv_qQ1x5Za3vm7tNBIw
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Estelle Winwoode 3 years ago
Thank you, Deborah B. The only other photo I could find had the human standing downhill, making Zeus look huge, again. Of course, he IS huge, but within reason for a Clydesdale.
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And speaking of the contents, the Human For Scale page features ROUS versions of things—things that look unusually large. You've got marvels of human engineering (towers, ancient buildings, statues, that one submarine of epic proportions, etc.), living creatures (whales, crabs, snails, and the like), as well as wonders of nature (cliff-sides, crevices, planets, that sort of deal) among many other things featured. And it’s all with varying degrees of human in them.
Some of the most successful tweets on the page have upwards of 100K likes, with your average tweet being in the thousands. Oh, and if you’re wondering, the most liked tweet is this one with a photo of two people sitting on the Abraj Al Bait clock tower in Mecca.
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Aunt Messy 3 years ago
It's just a facade, there's no real excavation inside. My husband went there years ago and said the ruins of the city were far more interesting.
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Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago
Petra looks like such an amazing place to visit during the off season.
Panda Kicki 3 years ago
This is the only pic of Petra I see in any media. And this is a really boring part of Petra, just a fake facade, nothing behind. While the rest of Petra is full of amazing wonders along ever dwindling stairs. It takes at least 3 days to see the area and you still miss a lot.
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Stealthzilla 3 years ago
This is my favorite pterosaur too, but it isnt a dinosaur
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Jennifer Norton 3 years ago
looking at that you have to wonder how it was able to fly. Doesn't seem like it should have considering how large it's head is. Truly amazing!
Carla McNeil 3 years ago
They launched themselves into the air with their front "knuckles." So, unlike birds, they didn't need strong back legs (which are heavy!)
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Karen Grace 3 years ago
Maybe the bees know since they shouldn't be able to fly either. I'd ask, but I think it would tell me to Buzzz off.
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Sue Denham 3 years ago
Imagine: you've just washed and polished your car when one of these flies over after a big lunch.
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XenoMurph 3 years ago
There's about 8 billion in this picture. You just have to really zoom in to see them. Also Barsoomians.
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idrow1 3 years ago
I wonder how much different life would be if Earth was the size of Jupiter. Same planet Earth, but just way way bigger.
Nonna_SoF 3 years ago
You wouldn't get anything that needs to support weight at that gravity level. So for multicellular life it would be things that are neutrally buoyant like jellyfish. It would also ramp up the pressure gradient making it hard to change depth.
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Mike Soigne 3 years ago (edited)
Sol (the Sun) is categorized as a Yellow dwarf star, which is why it's hotter, and somewhat "whiter," than similar Yellow stars. Cooler Yellows appear more "orange."
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Bored Panda got in touch with James Cohen, Digital Culture Expert, Writer, Educator, Digital Producer, and a man of many other talents, to learn more about the context in which pages like Human For Scale operate.
Pages like Human For Scale have a certain kind of randomness factor to them. If you’ve been on the internet long enough, you’ve already understood that based on the numerous pages like this already out there. So, we asked Cohen why is the internet seemingly the best place for such content.
“Human For Scale is random in as much as Weird Video Game Ads, Shirts With Threatening Auras, or Tweets of Cats. These theme accounts tap into the desire for viral content—low risk content that is easily shareable with people outside our own hyper-specific internet affinity groups. It's a tale as old as the internet and really reminds us of a time when everything wasn't a meme, but could just be a fun thing to like on our timeline. The internet is the only place for this content, because traditional media doesn't have this capability. It's what puts the social in social media.”
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Groundcontroltomajortom 3 years ago
Try telling that to the woman's arm carrying it around 🤣
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Wondering Alice 3 years ago
Women is actually 3 owls in a coat and this is just the mummy owl checking in on how the owl take over is going.
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Duesvolent90 3 years ago
"I'd like the finest Japanese tuna on a bed of giant calamari little blue human."
Headless Roach 3 years ago
Seals are carnivorous, look for a fish instead 🙃
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Phil Green 3 years ago
The seal in the photo is not even the bull. Beachmasters can reach 3 tonnes and be almost twenty feet long. I like seeing them in the wild.
Estelle Winwoode 3 years ago
It is a male. His name was Minazo and he was Japan's largest seal. But raised in captivity, and died at the age of 11.
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Jellicle bat 3 years ago (edited)
Ah yes, the famous monkey bread tree (wth do germans call it that)
Thorsten Massow 3 years ago
Not "Bananenbrotbaum". We call it "Affenbrotbaum" or monkey bread tree.
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Shelby Minchew 3 years ago
Aren't those the ones that stack a whole lot of water? Prob a good idea considering that damn terrain!
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lakitha tolbert 3 years ago
There are so many weird structures on this planet, I just wonder what aliens would even try to think of it…if it registered on them at all that is?
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Jrog 3 years ago
She is named "Hope". It was a fairly young blue whale, about 15 years old at the time of death. She spent the 1880s roaming seasonally between the Azores, Iceland and Ireland, and studies show she gave birth to a calf in 1890, spending the year raising her in the South Atlantic. She beached on a sand reef in Wexford, Ireland while migrating back to sub-polar waters. After days of trying to free herself, she was exhausted and put out of misery by the local harbor master, Edward Wickham. The corpse was sold for 111 pounds, roughly 15k$ today, to a Mr. William Armstrong, with about one third of the price going to Wickham and the rest to the Treasury of the Crown, as was customary for salvage. Armstrong resold it for double the price to the Museum, where it rested in the Mammals gallery until being promoted to main showpiece of the entrance hall in 2018.
Fenchurch 3 years ago
Dippy is back until December this year, not sure if he's where he should be in the main hall .... Stupid blue whale needs to go back into the gallery and let dippy reign once more over the main hall.
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So, given such content, what does this tell us about the average internet dweller? According to Cohen, Average Internet Joe is a scroller, a surfer, a commenter, or [insert whatever other more-or-less passive descriptor here]. Most who consume the internet on apps like Twitter and Facebook are not influencers or internet personalities—they’re just there to kill time, enjoy easily-digestible content, and use social media for it’s perceived purpose of making media social...
“… which, as we know, isn't true, since social media is a user network utilizing algorithms to create feeds to sell advertising,” pointed out Cohen. “Another thing is these random pages are usually part of a network of posters (sometimes called ‘Tweetdeckers’) that run these accounts because they know that their agnostic, apolitical content will be seen by as many people as possible. Usually, it comes into your feed because a friend liked the post or Twitter put it in a ‘viral tweets’ category.”
Does anyone else feel like they’ve just escaped the Matrix after that?
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Auntriarch 3 years ago
I think you just told him his mother smells of elderberries
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Captain Of The Ships 2 years ago
If I was in a boat and I looked over and saw that I would pass out from sheer terror
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WindySwede 3 years ago
Have anyone ever base jumped inside one I wonder? I know Google and YouTube is a thing, just to tired.
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Andrzej Fabiański 3 years ago (edited)
Water cooling tower. Not only at nuclear power plants ;)
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Mabelbabel 3 years ago
Why have they given the ship a red nose? He doesn't look happy about it
David H 3 years ago
the whole bottoms area is painted red, if that part is visible, then it means the boat is riding too high and at risk of capsizing
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Emma Brown 3 years ago
Please don't downvote this as it seems stupid, but when they return it to water, does it cause problems with the local water height changes at all?
Karen Grace 3 years ago
Not really. There will be a brief bit of brisk waves at first but shortly after the ship is already in the water would have returned to normal. In the ocean there is just too much area for it to make much of a difference. Now in an olympic sized pool, yes it would change the height, lol
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Must Be Bored Again 3 years ago
On Monday 17 October 1814 a bizarre industrial accident in St Giles, London claimed at least eight lives when a three-storey high vat of beer exploded inside a brewery and unleashed a tsunami of porter onto the streets around Tottenham Court Road.
Swoosh Loops 3 years ago
Quoted from https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/The-London-Beer-Flood-of-1814/
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Considering all of this, it leads us to a very crucial point of what it means to be a responsible and safe consumer of the internet. And that is what Cohen calls internet literacy:
“It's really important for us to increase our internet literacies and recognize that very often, viral content is gamed and optimized. The viral account holders (‘tweetdeckers’) are usually in it to make money, drawing large amounts of likes and followers so they can post sponsored content or cross promote other accounts for profit.”
“As with culture, there will always be people who take advantage of the current flows of entertainment and information systems for financial gain. If people become better at reading the internet as a system, we're far less likely to fall down rabbit holes. I'm not saying that Humans for Scale is acting in bad faith, but many viral accounts slowly crank up the weirdness/randomness until the algorithm suggests some questionable content.”
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love u 3 years ago
I saw them in person at the monterey aquarium.... i can assure you ten extremely big nopes from me
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Poor thing. Not only terrified by noise and constraint, but lac of water makes its legs very heavy.
RedMarbles 3 years ago
Yeah, I had the same reaction. There's a surprising lack of sympathy for this guy.
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Susan 3 years ago
I came to say the same thing, that picture doesn't show how big they really are. As I was walking up to them, they just kept getting bigger and bigger till I couldn't believe how huge they really were.
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ReenieTino 3 years ago
Astounding to consider that this was constructed with physical, human labor in the scorching desert. No cranes, backhoes, helicopters...
Seth 3 years ago
They may have employed treadle cranes, but yeah, human muscle was their only power source.
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Heather Nemanic 3 years ago
I can’t even guess how much plaster it took to cover the entire Pyramid…
kool mudkips 3 years ago
I just can not even begin to imagine all of the people it took to build this. Then that each had their own life and life story.... amazing. Not just an ode to a Pharoah but to thousands upon thousands of people. Who worked hard and built something that lasted 4000 years. I can only hope a reminder of my existence is here in 4000 years.
RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
There are signs. You climb, they shoot you down.
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TotallyNOTaFox 3 years ago
Shorter than to find out how the f**k they did it actually
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Estelle Winwoode 3 years ago
But much shorter. The Great Pyramid of Cholula is 25 metres (82 ft) high - that is, from base to top, while the Great Pyramid of Giza is 146.6 metres (481 ft) high. The Egyptian pyramid is six times taller than the Mexican one.
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Robert Trebor 3 years ago
The Panama Canal is one of the two in the world where the Captain is totally absolved of damage to the ship. When the stem, the base of the bow, passes the sill of the lock a log entry is made, and until the stern leaves, the Pilot has the ship. The other place is the Kiel Canal (Nord-Ostsee Kanal) in Germany. My Captain sat in his chair and even though he wasn't responsible, he chewed his nails down to his elbows while traversing the Kiel Canal.
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago
Its the Iowa (with the letter "I" like island) class named after the US state. There were 4 of them built after Japan and Italy both refused to sign a 1936 naval treaty. At the time, all of the shipyards big enough to build it were in Atlantic Ocean cities and they wanted to make sure it could make it to the Pacific rapidly if Japan decided to start something. Ironically, by the time the first one was completed, it essentially was already a support vessel for aircraft carriers instead of the lead ships of the fleet.
Hey Kat 3 years ago
Iowan here .... thank you for sharing the info! Never knew this.
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Scott Baysinger 3 years ago
That is in fact BB-61, USS Iowa. She is now a museum at the Port of Los Angeles. I need to get down there.
Gary Geracci 2 years ago
The ship[at this time is under the control of Canal pilots and the Mules that move it. The Crew by agreement has to stand down at this time. Meaning only standing by if the ship accidentally comes up against the Canal sides.To prevent any damage to either.
Pandasizing World Peace 3 years ago
My garage entrance is at a right angle to my narrow driveway. To make the turn in I have as little as 3" on each side. Then once in, I have a total of 3" to divide between being able to close the garage door and still being able to open the door to the side porch. Tight!
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RoanTheMad 3 years ago (edited)
Like a beautiful blue cat eye. :3 (also something else but I'm immature)
Whitney Anderson 3 years ago
no no no no no no no no. pictures like this give me so much anxiety and just ahhhhh
Jelena Putinja 3 years ago
you are NOT suppose to swim in it - it's drinking water supply for many people here - bloody tourists
Seth 3 years ago
It's an open pool of water; birds absolutely take dumps in it, and you're worried about a person swimming? Your ignorance reminds me of about 10 years ago when an Oregon reservoir drained 38 million gallons because a guy was filmed peeing in it (and now we have a historic drought) Reservoir water still goes through treatment before it supplies taps. People need to grow up and not be icked out by things that are harmless.
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Upstaged75 3 years ago
Look towards the top left of the pic. There's a row of rocks leading down to the water and a what looks like an area to get in/out of the water.
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“There will always be viral content that fascinates people, but with anything, it only takes a quick second to make sure that viral post isn't attached to some account that is spreading misinformation or mean spirited content. It's easy to like a post, but always remember that your likes on Twitter end up in other people's feeds,” concluded Cohen.
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago
He's a semi-mythical person and rumored to be 2.13 meters tall. We know he existed but tales of his feats are not so solid. Supposedly he was so strong he could behead multiple people with one swing of the sword and bend coins between his thumb and forefinger. He was welding this thing in the beginning of the 1500s and the first painting didn't show up for 300 years so his true size is speculation.
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HELIKOPTER HELIKOPTER 3 years ago (edited)
Royal guard’s claymore? I wonder what it’s stats are…
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AnonymousApple 3 years ago (edited)
zweihander = two-handed, in case anyone hadn't already commented that
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Captain Of The Ships 2 years ago
My worst fear is whales deciding they want to eat meat one day
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Karen Grace 3 years ago
Probably. His body shape is distorted, and an obese fish is not very common to see.
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CelticElff 3 years ago
Mmm, blast doors. Fascinating engineering though, the way the door is balanced!
Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago
That's an ridiculous amount of work to just keep your spouse from taking the last cold Coke from the fridge.
I'm.Just.A.Girl 3 years ago (edited)
Imagine getting your hand caught in the door. I don't think you would get to keep it!
The Idaho Potato 3 years ago
Kyle Hill did a fun video. It was something about new technology the inventors were careful about.
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Robert B 3 years ago
At stennis space center in Mississippi they have some structures for test firing rockets. Academically, I knew they would be huge. Then we drove by them. Even fairly close the people working on the structure looked like grains of rice.
UpQuarkDownQuark 3 years ago
There was a Saturn V rocket on its side at the Kennedy Space Center. (The one that took Apollo astronauts to the Moon.) It was astonishingly large.
Load More Replies... RafCo (he/him) 3 years ago
This is at the Udvar Hazey Center in Chantilly Virginia. Just outside Washington DC. It's part of the Smithsonian, and definitely worth a visit
Lady of the Mountains 3 years ago
This is in the air and space museum in Washington dc. There are two of them, this is the larger of the two. Both are Totally worth a visit if you're ever able to.
Rabbit Lord 3 years ago (edited)
I was in the kennedy space center a few years back and these space shuttles are impressive, you could put one of those extra long US school busses into the cargo bay with ease. Impressive.
KindredKiller 3 years ago
I live in north Alabama and have been to the space and rocket center before - it's genuinely so cool because there's real rockets and it's like - AAAA
So, if you have been paying attention and dotting down good notes, you’ll know well enough where to draw that line in this article. And you know what, we respect that.
But I do have to say that here is the link to the original Twitter page for Human for Scale, if you want to check out more, and here is another fun list we’ve crafted that’s less about humans as tools of measurement and more about car license plates that might just make you chuckle more than usual.
And most definitely be sure to visit James Cohen’s website and give his Twitter a follow to learn more of his works, projects, and wisdom on the contemporary digital culture and the internet as we know it today.
Oh, and upvote, comment, do all that jazz. Or don’t. Your call!
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Your sleep paralysis demon 3 years ago
Is it just me or does the rock kinda look like he’s calling out to the guy, like with the hand by his mouth? Idk nvm probably just me-
KM 3 years ago
The manpupuner is actually located not far (relativly) from my home town, now it's a touristy place with regular helicopter tours but until quite recently the only way to get there was on foot, some chose summer but the usual way was to ski, it took about 10 days. The rocks are a sacred place for the mansi people
KM 3 years ago
you can look up pictures online, it's a popular tourist destination) there's more than 1 stone and they're actually taller than the photo shows, the snow is hiding a lot
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Kenny Kulbiski 3 years ago
Yeah, looks big until you imagine being locked up under the ocean in one for months at a time. For me, anyway, it would start shrinking pretty damn fast.
Seth 3 years ago
Russia didn't build many of these, and they only exist as propaganda to encourage sailors to enlist in submarine service.
Riley Quinn 3 years ago
And yet, still not large enough for me to ever want to spend months inside it.
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Loki’s Lil Butter Knife 3 years ago
With that many people I would be nervous that the platform would give way.
Headless Roach 3 years ago (edited)
Was it as crowded as in the picture? The possibility of the platform giving in to the collective weight certainly adds to the terror.
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Khara Mei 3 years ago
Humans didn't intend to end up with a dead ray! It hooked itself onto the boat's anchor and nearly pulled the boat under several times in its pained panic. If it wasn't put down then it would have pulled the boat under, drowned all the occupants, and have bled to death in agony.
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Khara Mei 3 years ago
It ended up stuck on their anchor by accident and its pained thrashing nearly capsized the boat. Without being put down it would have drowned several people before bleeding to death in agony..
Load More Replies... Khara Mei 3 years ago
It's death was not intended. It got stuck on their anchor and was in agony. If it hadn't been euthanised it would have bled to death slowly and painfully.
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Khara Mei 3 years ago
It ended up stuck on their anchor by accident and its pained thrashing nearly capsized the boat. Without being put down it would have drowned several people before bleeding to death in agony.
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Jessica J. 3 years ago
Congratulations guys, you killed a completely harmless, gentle giant....idiots.
Mel Schmidt 3 years ago
Now this image just makes me hopping mad! Wish that humans leave critters alone! What evil they do!
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SomePeopleCallMeMaurice 3 years ago
I used to live at the edge of a National redwood forest in CA, and the majesty of the trees never faded in all of the years I lived there. It was a beautiful yet humbling experience every time I walked out my door. I’ll always miss living there.
Channon Doughty 3 years ago
I had so hoped to retire there. I don't think I'll ever get over being physically unable to live there ( lung disease and NW air pollution). Breaks my hear
Load More Replies... Shelby Minchew 3 years ago
Even a fallen Redwood is incredible. The age, their life and root systems to connect and help each other and of course the size! Wow. But this better have fallen naturally, damn it!
Ervin Conn 3 years ago
Wow!. I have that same picture! One of my fondest vacation memories. I looked really close at the root pattern and it is the exact same root ball. Mine was 2015 which tells me it is time to start planning a vacation trip there again.
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Sans Serif 3 years ago
More like a mobile spotting tower (sharks) before choppers came in vogue.
Shannon Hawks 3 years ago
save everyone in the water but accidentally ran over 10 people on the beach
Shirley Roche-Forde 3 years ago
By the time they got down the ladder you would have been dragged out to see
#37
RoanTheMad 3 years ago
When you resize your door for your giant friend, but they just bash their head on your chandelier seconds after stepping in.
Vinay Pai 3 years ago
or slip on the banana you put on the floor. For scale, you know... (I'll show myself out)
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago
I hate this. There's an arch outside shorter than the door.
WJ Williams 3 years ago
All I can think of how much does it cost to open the door in the heat of summer and the cold of winter. It loses a lot of bought air.
#38
Khara Mei 3 years ago
It was caught by a biologist team from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It was tagged for tracking purposes and released - they are a threatened species and the fishery it's in is protected.
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Jordan Klawiter 3 years ago
I looked this up, and read that she was measured and then released. Happy ending!
Michelle Carlson 3 years ago
I'm pretty sure they put it back; IIRC it was a research catch. It was big news here in Michigan
#39
nobody 3 years ago
There are different carved buildings (sorry I don't know what to call them) in Petra, in the other picture they showed the main one that you typically see, while this one is a lot simpler but still beautiful! I think the Petra buildings are absolutely amazing!
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Panda Kicki 3 years ago
What part? Monastry? I salute you to finally give me a different pic on Petra then the Treasury.! I loved the stairs most, but they wasnt photogenic.
#40
LAS 3 years ago
It may have fallen on it's own, or it was about to and if it's in a place where people are so it's safer to know where it's going to land. And then the space they are standing in was cut so there is a path thru it.
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Carman Davis 3 years ago
I've seen these massive trees. Only found in one place on earth, nat'l park in Cali. I've been there but can't remember the name. They are huge.
Tina Harnish 3 years ago
That's a small redwood. I've seen pictures from the late 1800s to early 1900s showing about 18 people holding hands circling the trees. With there hands extended.
Mel Schmidt 3 years ago
But who ever cut this beautiful tree down..... is really small in my eyes!
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Curly potato 3 years ago
I must admit, this post would be been greatly improved had there been the much-needed comparison banana in the corner of each photo
Robertas Lisickis (Post author) 3 years ago
Wait... what if you have a human with a banana for scale, but also a banana with a human for scale all in the same picture? *mind-blown*
Load More Replies... Orange Is Aging 3 years ago (edited)
This is the most useless post I have ever seen. How does someone make a post about having something for scale, WHEN ITS NOT A FREAKING BANANA OMFG WHAT IS THIS WEBSITE COMING TO
Whitney Anderson 3 years ago
All the red wood ones were pretty small compared to normal so here's a pic of my family trying to fit around one (we obviously couldn't) Screenshot...69-png.jpg 
Gabi 3 years ago
We do in fact share about 50% of our genes with plants – including bananas.” “Bananas have 44.1% of genetic makeup in common with humans." So, there is a banana on each photo, in the shape of a human.
Andy Frobig 3 years ago
So I'm a 44.1% cannibal? No turning back now, I guess
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the one panda _ 3 years ago
Everyone knows us pandas dont understand any size of anything unless we have a banana for scale! Tch, workers, you should know better!
Evelyn Haskins 3 years ago
Well, I always read heights and distances by imagining lots of my Dad lying end to end. Worked for me!!
Curly potato 3 years ago
I must admit, this post would be been greatly improved had there been the much-needed comparison banana in the corner of each photo
Robertas Lisickis (Post author) 3 years ago
Wait... what if you have a human with a banana for scale, but also a banana with a human for scale all in the same picture? *mind-blown*
Load More Replies... Orange Is Aging 3 years ago (edited)
This is the most useless post I have ever seen. How does someone make a post about having something for scale, WHEN ITS NOT A FREAKING BANANA OMFG WHAT IS THIS WEBSITE COMING TO
Whitney Anderson 3 years ago
All the red wood ones were pretty small compared to normal so here's a pic of my family trying to fit around one (we obviously couldn't) Screenshot...69-png.jpg
Gabi 3 years ago
We do in fact share about 50% of our genes with plants – including bananas.” “Bananas have 44.1% of genetic makeup in common with humans." So, there is a banana on each photo, in the shape of a human.
Andy Frobig 3 years ago
So I'm a 44.1% cannibal? No turning back now, I guess
Load More Replies... the one panda _ 3 years ago
Everyone knows us pandas dont understand any size of anything unless we have a banana for scale! Tch, workers, you should know better!
Evelyn Haskins 3 years ago
Well, I always read heights and distances by imagining lots of my Dad lying end to end. Worked for me!!
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