From nomophobia, an irrational fear of being without a mobile phone, to xanthophobia, a fear of the color yellow, countless phobias exist out there. Now this time, we’re delving into the mind of megalophobes, people who are in fear of anything large, like skyscrapers and jumbo jets.
In fact, there’s a whole corner of Reddit dedicated to sharing examples of this phobia known as megalophobia. “A place to post images of all things large, particularly ones that are 'triggers' for those with megalophobia,” the group’s description states.
Below we rolled up some of the most interesting examples shared on the group, so scroll down. Also, when you’re done reading this one, make sure to check out part 1 of the article.
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The Tallest Tree In Wales Got Damaged By A Storm And Was Supposed To Be Cut Down, Instead Chainsaw Artist Simon O’rourke Found A Better Solution To Symbolize The Tree’s Last Attempt To Reach The Sky
A Minnesota Woman Recently Captured A Cloud Formation That Appeared To Look Like An Ocean In The Sky
If I looked up from my phone, in the passenger seat, I would immediately p**s myself so badly-
Angel Oak, The Oldest Tree East Of The Mississippi
Pyramids On The Horizon
Ukrainian Helicopter Flying With Freeway Traffic To Avoid Russian Radar
Clever - but it must be terrifying for the truck driver. Imagine thinking you might be hit by a Russian missile!
Imagine This Showing Up In Your Hospital Room
Worlds Without End
A Towering Thunderstorm As Seen At 37000ft Over Panama
Temples In Thailand
Anyone Else See A Bear?
An Iceberg Underwater
Standing Over 7 Feet Tall And Weighing A Massive 2600 Pounds, “Big Jake” Is Currently The World’s Largest Horse
Rare Jellyfish Red Sprite Lightning Found 30-90km In The Atmostphere
Remember "Paranorman"? Yeah, I think you know who I'm talking about in that movie
40 Feet Of Snow, North Dakota (1966)
I Hate Hot Air Balloons In General, But These?? With Faces?? Looking At Me?? Absolutely Not
Point Nemo, The Spot Farthest Away From Any Land In The World, Where You Are Closer To Astronauts Aboard The Iss Than Humanity
Just A Spiral Staircase
Just Something About This Being Able To Float Is Stressing Me Out Somehow
Did you say "cruiseshits" on purpose?
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Aside from how much of a Petri dish for germs a poop cruise can be, just the f*****g crowd of people packed like sardines on all those decks puts up all kinds of red flags for an introvert like me. No real private place to recharge my social battery. So this would be a huge No F*****g Way for me.
I'm not even an introvert and I hate it... Big fat NO for me as well.
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Probably depends on what “bad for ocean” means. Its propeller definitely can cause harm to ocean life (even the noise can disrupt some form of animal communication in water). The fuel will definitely spit extreme amount of emission into the atmosphere, helping ocean level to rise (unless it runs on hydrogen, which I doubt). Other than that, unless they throw their trash into the ocean, it probably has very little, if any, effect to ocean (I’m not expert though, so I might miss some crucial information)
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apparently this monstrosity is still under construction and will be operational next year
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Setting for "Hunger Games: Water World Edition." Or maybe, "Purge II"
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I can't think of anything I would care to do less than boarding one of these abominations
I always thought about that I might like a cruise...but no. I'll take a cabin in the mountains with no one around for 100 km rather than being shoulder to shoulder listening to "The Killers" on repeat, watching child after child riding down a crowded waterslide between their bloated father.
Not going to lie. If any sort of apocalypse was to happen. I would try to take one of these over of these. Sure the upkeep will be impossible even with a good team but for a time I could enjoy the open seas and not be bored while the world goes up in flames.
Erm... Any sort of apocalypse might include tsunamis as well...😳
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is it just me... or are the water slides way out of proportion compared to the humans? And there is the banana for scale? Having trouble here.
I don't get the attraction of these. I would rather go on a riverboat cruise that only have like 200 or so people on board. I can't wrap my head around how they organize everyone if the boat starts to sink.
I don't understand how some people look at that and think it's awesome and not awful.
I went on a cruise ONCE with a group of friends. It was such a miserable experience. Too many people drunk and acting a fool all around you...and there you are, trapped with nowhere to go. I guess there's something for everyone and I hear people say that they go on cruises every year. This is not for me. Anxiety Level 1000
It does cost, but I don't think it's any more "only for the rich" than any other type of vacation. In fact, it can actually be very cheap comparatively. For example, I'll probably never be able to afford to take my family to Disney, but a few years ago (precovid) my husband and I were able to go on a 7 night cruise for two for less than $1200, meals and travel included and $200 onboard credit. That's cheaper than a VRBO rental for a week at the beach, and that's just the house, not including food, travel, or anything.
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I wonder if you could build a rocket engine powerful enough to put that into orbit.
There is in theory no physical limit on how big a ship can be when it comes to water displacement. Room and ressources are a limiting factor though
And to think that if I throw myself in the ocean...I would go straight down!!!
I wonder just how top heavy that thing is. I can't imagine it feels good in bad weather, and there's only so fast they can go to get away from bad weather.
You couldn’t PAY me to be in this floating Petri dish of germs, bacteria, and disease.
I don’t see the point: they’re just floating shopping and food malls.
Go there during covid, and even if it is full you can keep the 2 meter easily.
I thought cruises were supposed to be stylish and cool looking. This is an eye sore.
Looks like hell to me, or a breeding pit of virus and bacteria.
The design brief. 'Build the biggest ugliest ship anyone has ever seen.. ever.'
I adore traveling, however, being stuck on a mega cruise 🚢 is my own personal definition of hell.
Can I call dibs on this for the end of the world? Everyone must vacate apart from essential crew members, unless I am able to train a crew of my choosing before then. Not exactly sure how long we have left until the end of the world, so I would ask those who use it in the meantime to please look after it.
The size doesn’t matter; it’s just distasteful, in general. It has no business sullying the oceans. Seen in such close proximity of the photos of Point Nemo or the majestic beauty of the iceberg, both pictured above (at the moment, at least), it’s almost obscene in how garish it is.
My nightmare is being caught with this many people in these close confines with no way out.
Probably barrel distortion from the camera's lens, but it looks like those two towers aft are about to fall off the boat
Looks like a polly pocket set on a stream, with the white thing being a handle lol
wow...floating theme park...passenger capacity must be insane. I wish they brought back ocean liners instead of making cruise ships humongous...i like travelling by boat since I hate planes, but just looking at this is making me exhausted.
There has to be at least 1 person there that is not right, and me with no where to run. NO THANK YOU!!
Soon we all will be Googling "Icon of the Seas" and "maritime disaster."
Oh that looks like fun. Kinda like being stuck in Times Square on New year's eve for a week. And paying for it.
If I went on that, I would cry and they would have to call the police to get me off
Not a real ship. Not yet, it's being built to go into service on the cruise line as of next year, and an even bigger one is being built to go into service 2024 ._.
i've always wondered where all the toilet waste goes on a ship this large
I was in Sorrento when a smallish cruise ship docked. The town was mobbed, with long lines for everything. Can you imagine just how swamped Venice, for example, would be? Pun accidental, but pretty accurate.
Venice is banning cruise ships. Even much smaller ones.
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This is a computer generated image. The ship itself isn't due for launch until 3rd quarter 2023
Royal Caribbean just keeps building bigger and bigger cruise ships. This one can handle nearly 8000 people.
1,200 feet long. Will average 5,610 passengers, but could hold 7,600. 10,000 if you count crew. Nicknamed, "human lasagna" for the 20 layers. Taller than the Eiffel tower.
Won't ever find me aboard a monstrosity like that... too many people with nowhere to escape to.
Obviously funded by Dubai or similar. Have they not heard of 'living lightly'?
Scheduled to enter service in 2024. Only then will we know if it's a titanic engineering failure.
Eeeek from a layman’s point of view it’s so too heavy how does science keep it afloat!
I'm much to fond of quiet for this to be anything other than uncomfortable
That is insane. Just travel to a place. This defeats the entire point of a cruise.
A Giant Statue Of Chinese Warrior Hero Guan Yu
Just A Frozen Waterfall
Quetzalcoatlus, As Tall As A Giraffe, The Largest Known Flying Animal In History. Imagine This Flying Towards You
Excuse me do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior Quetzalcoatl?
Supercell Forming In Wyoming
It looks like one of the four elephants has stepped off the giant turtle onto Earth :o
The True Size Of The Easter Island "Heads"
A Blanket Of Mammatus Clouds Dwarfing A Plane
The Fog... Oh God
How I imagine the Mary Celeste may have looked, minus the people of course.
Face In The Clouds
Ominous and unsettling. Pareidolia, of course but I'd still run away from it as fast as I could.
Mosquito Flying Over Camera Lens
Earth Next To Jupiter
Oil Rig Platform Being Towed Into The Sea. The Platform Itself Is Dwarfing The Luxurious Hotel On The Left
150 Ft Iceberg Floating By A Small Town In Newfoundland, Canada. Gives Me The Heebie Jeebies
Recently Got A 17 Hour Ferry And Looking Out Into Nothing At 3am Was Terrifying
Looking up and seeing the milky way in all of its glory is breathtaking though.
A Cave
I love caves, but at the same time, despise them with all my being. Looking at this, I feel waves of calm and wonder, and also "HOLY S**T F**K NAH NOPE S**T GET IT AWAY"
Statue Of Unity In India. The Biggest Statue In The World At Present
Mount Saint Michel
The Biggest Bug Known To Ever Live. The Arthropleura Millipede That Predates The Dinosaurs And Grew Up To 100 Pounds.
Toy Story Room Size
150 Meter Aluminum Sea Serpent Skeleton Sculpture In Saint Brevin Near Nantes
damn. even though i know it’s fake, i still think it’s amazing. the sheer size of the beasts in the past never fail to amaze!
The Vastness Of Fishermen’s Nets
Ponte City Apartments In Johannesburg, South Africa. The Tallest Residential Building On The African Continent
Hong Kong From A Different Perspective
Each Frame Of Interstellar's Black Hole Took Over 100 Hours To Render
Nooope
Burning Man Festival
Burning man used to be cool. Now, not so much. When a kardashian attends your festival, it's a sign of lame.
Never Realized These Were That Big
Inside Of A Windmill
A Research Team Surveys A Remote Area In Antarctica Where There Have Been Historical Accounts Of An “Ancient Giant Frozen In Ice”. Its Exact Size And Location Were Never Given. If Real, Scientists Suspect The So-Called “Giant” To Be A Mummified, Prehistoric Animal. The Team Is Looking For Traces
“Duga” Was A Soviet Radar System Used As Part Of The Soviet Anti-Ballistic Missile Early-Warning Network. These Things Were So Powerful It Interfered With Radio Signals Half Way Around The World
The Typhoon Is A Class Of Nuclear-Powered Ballistic Missile Submarines Built By The Soviet Union. With A Submerged Displacement Of 48,000 Tonnes, The Typhoons Are The Largest Submarines Ever Built
The Inside Of 160 000m³ Long Containment Tank
First Direct Image Of Another Planetary System Located About 300 Light-Years Away Around A Star Like Our Sun
Rough Scale Of An Atomic Bomb Mushroom Cloud
Tokyo, Japan
Anchor Hole To A Sunken Us Warpship
How Large A Megalodon Would Have Been
Comet Compared To Los Angeles
The comet in this picture is Churyumov–Gerasimenko, that was the destination of the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission (launched 2004). Rosetta rendezvoused with Churyumov–Gerasimenko in August 2014 and entered orbit in September 2014. Rosetta's lander, Philae, landed on the comet's surface on 12 November 2014, becoming the first spacecraft to land on a comet. On 30 September 2016, the Rosetta spacecraft ended its mission by landing on the comet in its Ma'at region. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/67P/Churyumov%E2%80%93Gerasimenko
Saint-Michel Castle, France
Argentavis Magnificens (Literally "Magnificent Argentine Bird") Is The Largest Flying Bird Ever Discovered
What about the before mentioned Quetzalcoatlus? Edit: Thanks for clarifying this is the largest bird, and Quetzalcoatlus was the largest flying animal.
Standing On The Spire, Wilshire Grand, Downtown Los Angeles
Man vs. Spaceship
Can You Imagine?
Jesus Christ I thought this was just a statue for the longest time. That’s a whole arm/leg.
Largest Salt Mine In Europe
Just think of the amount of time it took to deposit this amount of salt...
1,3km Tall Mountain In Norway (House For Scale)
Olympus Mons, On The Planet Mars. It’s The Largest Mountain In The Solar System And Is About 22km High
Just Truly Shows You The Size Of Battleships
Looks Like It Might Rain
Somebody Tell Me This Isn't Real
i’ve had a phobia of waves after almost drowning in a wave pool over the summer, and i’ve always been scared of tsunamis. this is.. absolutely terrifying.
Giant Scary Blanket
Tokyo Flood Tunnels Are Huge
Twin Towers, New York City
See, I was going to make a joke here. But I then realized that joke is very, very, very offensive. I have determined that the best course of action is to just shut up.
This Hallway To Single Restroom At A Shop I Was At
Salt Mines
Lakewood Church In Texas Capacity 45,000 People. Is This Really Necessary?
Excessive. Unnecessary. God is found in the small places, and in the silence of the heart.
Attack On Titan Statue
Funny Yet Terrifying
General Sherman Tree: 83.8 M (275 Ft)
Eagle Demi-God Jatayu (Kerala, India)
This Scares The Crap Outta Me
The Duomo In Florence, Italy
The Statue Of Liberties Face Before Being Installed
Warner Von Braun Next To The Engines Of The Saturn V Rocket Used For The Apollo Lunar Missions
Gather round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun, A man whose allegiance, is ruled by expedience. Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown. "Ha, Nazi Schmazi," says Wernher von Braun. Don't say that he's hypocritical, Say rather that he's apolitical. "Once the rockets are up, Who cares where they come down? That's not my department," Says Wernher von Braun. Some have harsh words for this man of renown, But some think our attitude Should be one of gratitude, Like the widows and cripples in old London town, Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun. You too may be a big hero, Once you've learned to count backwards to zero. "In German oder English I know how to count down, Und I'm learning Chinese," says Wernher von Braun. - Tom Lehrer
The Uss Gerald R. Ford In Her Drydock
1920's Fiat Built A Racetrack On Their Production Warehouse
... and people complain about someone walking on the floor above them.
This Sculpture That The Pope Apparently Sits In Front Of
Absolutely Ugly. Looks like an overgrown, out of control hedgerow has trapped a passerby.
Belaz 75710
This Cave Entrance At The Bottom Of A Sinkhole In Guizhou, China. See The Four Guys On The Rock For Scale
Boat Under The Bridge
I feel like the floor under my feet aren’t really THAT solid
Yes. That Is Actual Fog
“The World’s Greatest Parking Lot” Ethel Greene, Oil On Canvas 1969
Amoco Cadiz
So I Finally Found Someone Who Was Selling A Previously Owned 12ft Skeleton From Home Depot. As You Can See Here, I Started Putting The Bottom Half Of The Skeleton Together Just To Get A Better Scale As To How Big This Thing Is And Yeah
Siemens Gamesa's Sg 14-222 Dd Operational Prototype - The Largest And Most Powerful Wind Turbine In The World
This Almost Half A Kilometer Long And Over 65m Wide Cargo Ship
"Join Us, Play With Us... Forever"
The Statue Of Unity In India Is 182m Tall
That Huge TV In Mike Tyson's Abandoned Mansion
A 1 Million Seater Stadium Concept Made And Designed By American Artist Paul Pfeiffer
The Tallest Clock Tower (Abraj Al Bait) Compared To Big Ben
The Widest Highway In The World Is Interstate 10, Located In Katy Texas, It Serves Over 219,000 Vehicles Daily
My First Thought When I Hear "I Wish Pokémon Were Real Sometimes"
I Wonder If You Could Hear It Creaking
Now Imagine The Titanic
Giant Crocodile Found In The Philippines With A Length Of 20+ Feet
The Infinite City
Monument To The Revolution Of The People Of Moslavina
A Reoccurring Nightmare Of Myne.. Cool Or Absolutely Fking Not?
Would You Slide?
Just A Tantive In Dry Dock
Human Terrarium
wasn’t this on an earlier thread, it was the lighting for a movie?
Alex Dawson's Scuba Diving Photos
The Architectural Designs Of Étienne-Louis Boullée (12 February 1728 – 4 February 1799)
"The Line Is A Proposed Smart Linear City In Saudi Arabia In Neom, Tabuk, Currently Under Construction, Which Is Designed To Have No Cars, Streets Or Carbon Emissions"
A place for the rich to hide from the effects of global warming. Paid for with money made from selling oil. The same oil that is causing global warming.
With 2% Of Its Annual Defense Budget, The Us Could Afford To Construct A Colossal Obsidian Sphere In The San Francisco Bay, Visible Throughout All Of Northern California And Emanating An Ominous Hum!
That's Absolutely Terrifying
The Line
A Comparison Of The Us And Jupiter’s Storm Credit: Nasa
Digital Illustrations By Stuart Lippincott
And even if I do sleep... best believe it'll be with serious nightmares!
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I wrote a song about his list, it’s called OH MY GOD WHY DID I CLICK ON THIS and a one and a two…… AAAAAAAAAAAA
And even if I do sleep... best believe it'll be with serious nightmares!
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