Everything is relative. For example, Shaq might not look tall when he's on camera next to other basketball players and Simone Biles might not seem short when you see her competing against other gymnasts but put them near each other and you'll instantly get an idea of their size.
So to broaden your understanding of the world, we at Bored Panda put together a new list of interesting comparison pictures from all sorts of different areas, including nature, technology, and social issues. It's a series we've been working on for a while too; if you like scrolling through these images, fire up our earlier publications here, here, and here. Maybe you missed some!
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A Year Ago I Was Depressed And Suicidal. Today Things Have Gotten Better
I'm very proud of you. That's all I can feel. A lot and a lot of proud.
Before And After Cleft Lip Surgery
Just Retired After 42 Years As An Obstetrical Nurse, At The Same Hospital. Here I Am At The Start (1979) And End Of My Career
Fifteen Years Later, Still Best Friends
One Year Since My Wife Brought A Flea Ridden, Tiny Baby Back To Life With A Blood Transfusion
Saw The Left Picture On My Google Photos And Was Feeling Proud Of Myself. 1.5 Years Post Open-Heart Surgery
How 2021 Started vs. How It's Going
This Art Completes Me
I Drew Her, She Drew Me
Inherited A Painting A Few Years Ago, Randomly Came Across The Building In The Painting While On A Trip
This Is My Feral Friend Sad Boy, Showing Off How Good He Looks After A Few Months Of Love And Care
My Brother's Dog, Ricky, Before And After Adoption
Cubic Window During Different Times Of Day
Real Estate Agent’s Response To Vandalism
Turning Vitiligo Into An Art
Looks cool. Good thing is that you don't have to worry about the white parts fading coz white tattoo ink doesn't last long.
My Little Guy Turned 1 This Week
This Is The Size Of A Tree They're Cutting Down In Canada Compared To A Human. This Is Why People Are Getting Upset
One Is Not Like The Others. Can You Guess Which Is The Weird One?
My Wife Said He Wouldn’t Get That Big, But He Got Big
Effects Of Light Pollution: How The Stars Look On A Typical Night Versus A Widespread Power Outage
Just one of the reasons why I love camping so much. The sky is just amazing.
Today Is Lithuanian Statehood Day Aka Mindaugas Coronation Day, So Lithuanian Army Decided To Share This
After Growing My Hair Out For Nearly 3 Years, I Finally Decided To Cut And Donate It This Month
For anyone considering this, do a little research before you decide where to donate. Some of the "charities" actually charge really high prices for the people who need them. My family discovered this when my sister developed alopecia universalis that 9 years old.
Inseparable
One Of These Chess Pieces Is Different From The Others
My 1977 Triumph Spitfire Next To A Couple Of Fords On 44’s
Car designed for English people who enjoy driving down twisty country lanes vs trucks designed for Americans with big, straight roads and small ego's
Men's Beach-Handball Teams Uniform vs. The Women's Uniform
It's absolutely disgusting that the female handball team were fined for wearing similar to the men's instead of their usual bikini style clothes. The committee in charge of those rules should be ashamed of themselves.
S21 Ultra In My Wife's Jeans vs. My 18-Month-Old Son's Joggers
2019 vs. 2021
The Many Colors Of Lake Superior
Women's USA Basketball Team vs. El Salvador
Wednesday Is Not Good At Pictures. More Photogenic Cat For Comparison
Daughter’s Science Experiment. The Plants Hear Her Voice Recorded On A Loop. The One On The Far Left Hears Mean Comments, The One On The Far Right Hears Loving Comments
My goal this year is to speak life.
The plant on the right gets substantially more sunlight than the plant on the left with the shadow of the shed but sure. (That being said, research does show that the gentle vibrations of normal, calm voices can stimulate plant growth. Google it.)
This Massive Bald Eagle Feather I Found
Genuine question: seeing as they are a protected species and the feathers have cultural significance, would that person be allowed to keep that feather?
Found Band-Aids For Different Skin Tones At Target
I Inherited My Grandma's Sewing Supplies And As I Was Putting Them Away Realized I Bought The Exact Same Buttons That She Did Over 35 Years Ago For Me
This Tiny Banana I Harvested Today. Hand For Scale
14 Years Later
My Mom And My Sister 2000/2021
Two Scientists Created The "Sea-Thru" Algorithm That Alters Underwater Photos To Show What The Colors "Really" Look Like
11 Weeks And 11 Years And Both Very Cute
An Ice Cream Shop I Visited
Size Difference In Olympians Doesn't Matter, Depending On What Sport You Do? Volleyball Player vs. Gymnast
6'8" & 4'8"
Women’s Clothing Sizes Are Nonsense. Both Size 32
It is ridiculous and it’s really harmful for your self stem. The other day I saw a L T-shirt that was 1Cm wider than a xxs. Two trousers of the same size, one fit perfectly and the other didn’t pass my tights. I bought in the same store a xxL and a L that were the same size (of a normal L). I felt horrible when I needed a xxL until I measured it with the other shirt I got. It’s horrible for the self steam.
Sunlight Reflecting Through Different Lengths Of Aluminum
This Giant Dandelion I Found On My Walk Today. Hand For Scale
Sure it's a dandelion? I think it might actually be a salsify seed ball. They look like dandelion seed balls but bigger.
What Sunscreen Looks Like Through A UV Camera
Interesting. Looks like melanin protecting her skin
One Of These Is A Twig, The Other Is A Moth Larva
I’m Being Overcharged By Insurance After My Daughter Was Born. This Is The Pile Of Mail I Have To Go Through To Prove They’re Ripping Me Off. Pear For Scale
I will henceforth use the pear as a measuring standard. Brilliant... I have 2-pears worth of homework to get through today.
The Cables I Need To Charge Three Devices Made By The Same Company
Altenburg, Germany. Before And After The Ongoing Severe Flooding Due To Excessive Rain
So much modern housing is built on ancient flood planes with zero planning during construction for bad weather. England is terrible for it, plus they stopped dredging the rivers on the say so of environmental nut-jobs which really helped flood everywhere
That may be true but in this case this was not a normal flood. I went to school in Ahrweiler and my parents still love a few villages away from the Ahr (the river). The are used to normal flooding there. In general the river has a depth of 60cm. A big flood may be 2 to 3 meters. This where 6 to 8m! And all of that happened in a couple of hours.... At the time of the biggest raise in depth some ground floors where filled with water in 30 to 60 minutes. I agree that we need to do something differently with where we build, where we have flood planes and so on but because I am heavily invested in this region I want to make clear that this is not just because we fixed or straightened the river bed...
Load More Replies...my relatives are living in Ahrweiler, where the flooding was, and my dad said it was a nearly surreal scenery while he helped my family there. Many people described it similar to a war zone. Animals flooding around, dead people needed to be dragged out of their flooded houses, damage everywhere, mud meter high and the town full of military, firefighters and other people. undescribable.
if everyone let beavers do their jobs there wouldn't be flooding... and flood planes are flood planes BECAUSE rivers flood - building there is just stupid.
That's not an ancient flood plain. That's a very current oxbow. According to the dictionary, an oxbow is a meander that becomes cut off from the main flow except during weather extremes. Good thing they don't have a lot of tornadoes because then they'd have trailer parks as well
That's happened here in the U.S. with our trees. "Oh no! don't cut the dead ones" we'll leave them here to fuel the next wild fire!
Damn don't we know it.. Our forests are so unhealthy because so many dead trees..
Load More Replies...I actually left Germany when I was 5. There were a couple floods and most were tragic. Take care of the planet ❤️
Almost 100 years earlier exactly same thing happened. I have seen old postcards from that time. So they simply didn’t learn anything because the data used for building development bases on 50 year’s documentation. So now they started considering records of up to 100 years even if not as reliable. As least some lessons learned 💥
We have to plan for 1000 year floods, stay away from flood planes. I am sorry for the loss.
It looks like a dog to me (face right corner for reference and the island is the ear). 😉
So rain no good? Or plan to build there assuming mother nature would just revolve around you... no good?
“Let’s build our whole town in a former river valley. What could go wrong?”
Yes, our climate is changing. BUT you can't disregard the massive amount of deforestation that has occurred in Europe and how the majority of wetlands have been drained for agricultural reasons. Throw in an obsessiion with paving everything... And (excuse the pun😐).. you've got your perfect storm..
maybe for the future humans should be prepared for more like this and create special river beds made of concrete that are used for other things in normal life but are life saving during flood periods?
My colleague is from Altenburg. I never knew how beautiful is was. I hope, the floods subsided without major damage!
Note: this post originally had 105 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
A lot of these have appeared on BP previously, despite the claim in the title.
They recycle quite often. I guess Reddit was a bust this week
Load More Replies...Very much enjoyed this feed. Thanks for sharing. A lot of interesting things to see and learned a lot about things.
The 'hand for scale' thing was funny with the tiny banana but soon became very much overdone.
Your right. As soon as everyone got hands...it got out of hand
Load More Replies...When they say hand for scale, I have huge hands and my girlfriends hand next to mine (for scale lol) her fingers end at my first bend in fingers. She saysvi have shovels not hands
I visited Tanah Lot, Bali (Indonesia) after 20 years Tanah-Lot-...63c238.jpg
A lot of these have appeared on BP previously, despite the claim in the title.
They recycle quite often. I guess Reddit was a bust this week
Load More Replies...Very much enjoyed this feed. Thanks for sharing. A lot of interesting things to see and learned a lot about things.
The 'hand for scale' thing was funny with the tiny banana but soon became very much overdone.
Your right. As soon as everyone got hands...it got out of hand
Load More Replies...When they say hand for scale, I have huge hands and my girlfriends hand next to mine (for scale lol) her fingers end at my first bend in fingers. She saysvi have shovels not hands
I visited Tanah Lot, Bali (Indonesia) after 20 years Tanah-Lot-...63c238.jpg