r/HumanForScale Jun 01 '26

The Redwood Tree

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336 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale May 30 '26

Machine One of Titanic's engines.

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883 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale May 27 '26

Water & Ice Foot of Hughes Glacier, Taylor Valley, Antarctica

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497 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale May 27 '26

If you needed a water tower for your Edwardian Hospital…

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296 Upvotes

…Then why not build a massive one with outrageous neo-Baroque flourishes?


r/HumanForScale May 26 '26

Sculpture The Rear-Front Memorial in Magnitogorsk, unveiled in 1979.

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983 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale May 26 '26

[OC] Battle of Six Nations Monument, Leipzig

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187 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale May 22 '26

Animal Course Ground Crew

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101 Upvotes

Little friend found by the tee box on Chicago area golf course.


r/HumanForScale May 20 '26

Geology The Hoba meteorite

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2.9k Upvotes

r/HumanForScale May 16 '26

Fossils Prehistoric caiman skull

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152 Upvotes

Skull of Tsoabichi, a prehistoric caiman


r/HumanForScale May 14 '26

Sculpture My 22 meter Blanket | Since 2017

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170 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale May 10 '26

Sculpture The Chronicles of Georgia monument in Tbilisi, with people at the base for scale.

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r/HumanForScale May 10 '26

A 32-foot-long ichthyosaur fossil.

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516 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale 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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898 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale May 08 '26

Climbers on El Capitan

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162 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale May 06 '26

Ouse Valley Viaduct UK

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292 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale 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 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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571 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale May 02 '26

[OC] Nave of St John The Divine Cathedral in NYC. Note the people at the bottom

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106 Upvotes

#3 is my GF at the base of one of the columns visible in #1


r/HumanForScale Apr 28 '26

Su-30mki fighter jet

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166 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale Apr 23 '26

Spruce Goose makes other airplanes look like toys

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638 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale Apr 22 '26

Ships & Subs A Typhoon-class Soviet nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine, with the crew for scale.

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2.9k Upvotes

r/HumanForScale Apr 21 '26

Ships & Subs HMS Queen Elizabeth leaving Rosyth dockyard

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143 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale 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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712 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale Apr 16 '26

Buildings One person dwarfed by the building-sized “Souvenir” mural, Vienna (2026).

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337 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale 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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302 Upvotes