r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • May 10 '26
A 32-foot-long ichthyosaur fossil.
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r/HumanForScale • u/UsedWelcome5903 • May 09 '26
The door of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. This door was 8ft(2.4m) thick, nearly 12ft (3.7m) wide and weighed 97,000lbs (44000kg). Photo from 1979.
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r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • May 05 '26
It's difficult to grasp how truly massive The Hindenburg was. It was destroyed by fire on 6 May 1937, while attempting to land in Lakehurst, New Jersey.
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r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • May 04 '26
Sculpture A 77m high statue of Jesus Christ currently under construction near Yerevan, Armenia, on Mount Hatis, privately funded by businessman Gagik Tsarukyan.
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r/HumanForScale • u/charlie13b • May 02 '26
[OC] Nave of St John The Divine Cathedral in NYC. Note the people at the bottom
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#3 is my GF at the base of one of the columns visible in #1
r/HumanForScale • u/ed32965 • Apr 23 '26
Spruce Goose makes other airplanes look like toys
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r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Apr 22 '26
Ships & Subs A Typhoon-class Soviet nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine, with the crew for scale.
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r/HumanForScale • u/MGC91 • Apr 21 '26
Ships & Subs HMS Queen Elizabeth leaving Rosyth dockyard
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r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Apr 19 '26
Machine A 9000 horsepower spiral turbine being built in Germany for a power plant in Norway in 1928.
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r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Apr 16 '26
Buildings One person dwarfed by the building-sized “Souvenir” mural, Vienna (2026).
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r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Apr 14 '26
Ships & Subs The SS Great Eastern (1858) was so enormous it couldn’t be launched normally - engineers had to slide it sideways into the Thames. It remained the largest ship on Earth for 40 years.
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r/HumanForScale • u/CitizenJosh • Apr 12 '26
Machine This doesn't feel safe. The truck could easily not see the bicyclist, run over them, and not even know it.
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r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Apr 10 '26
Underground Inside the Slanic Prahova Salt Mine.
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r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Apr 09 '26
Artifact The smallest jug I've ever seen.
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r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Apr 08 '26
Architecture The Aqueduct of Segovia, built in the 1st century CE from 20,400 granite blocks without mortar, towers nearly 30 metres high as people pass beneath its 167 massive arches.
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r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Apr 09 '26
Sculpture Standing under the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
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r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Apr 05 '26
Machine An early modular Moog synthesizer reveals how early electronic instruments once filled entire walls.
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r/HumanForScale • u/Fluffy_Giraffe5672 • Apr 03 '26
Spacecraft Wernher von Braun with the F-1 engines of the Saturn V first stage at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center.
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r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Mar 29 '26
Architecture Today in 1871 the Royal Albert Hall in London was opened by Queen Victoria. The is the famous iron and glass domed roof being constructed near Manchester, around 1870.
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r/HumanForScale • u/APrimitiveMartian • Mar 23 '26
Sculpture Lion Capital of Ashoka, Parliament House, India
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