Other than knowing that your cat doesn’t quite come up to your knee or that trees tower over you, most of us generally don’t have a firm grasp on where we stand in the world, at least in terms of our size.
Yes, the universe does a good job of making us feel small but there are lots of other things right here on Earth that will do the trick, too. Just check out the things below!
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Where’s the iceberg?
I feel like we need a tin flute solo to go along with this. But hey, we all knew they didn’t re-create a full-size HMS Titanic for the movie so it shouldn’t be surprising that the scale model was so reasonably sized.
Still fascinating to see, though.
How do you even play that?
You’d almost have to be Stretch Armstrong to be able to play an octobass if not for a system they’ve rigged up for it.
The funny part is that it doesn’t play lower than a normal bass. It just sounds like four of them .
The definition of grandeur.
The Lady Buddha statue at Linh Ung Pagoda is the largest statue in all of Vietnam, standing 220 feet tall.
So, don’t just look up when you’re at its feet; look waaaaaay up. What a marvel.
One big boom.
You know, you hear that the Krakatoa eruption in the 19th century was massive but that’s nothing compared to the evidence it left behind.
This chunk of coral, for example, was thrown onto shore by the eruption, just one of many ways the blast altered the landscape.
No thanks.
The Abraj Al Bait in Mecca, Saudi Arabia is “only” the third-tallest building in the world. The view from up there looks plenty high for me.
Even a pic has my palms sweaty. You wouldn’t catch me anywhere near the ledge.
“This mammoth sunflower I grew.”
How much Miracle Gro did this guy use on his sunflower? I mean, I knew they got tall but not twice as tall as a person.
Workin’ it.
Work horses were bred for business and it shows. Just check out the size of this Dutch draft horse. It’s about as big and as handsome as they get. What a specimen.
Big stretch.
It’s not unusual to see such tall trees but the location for this one is definitely odd.
You wouldn’t think that it would have gotten enough light when surrounded by high cliff faces but here it is. Life found a way.
Okay, that spells it out.
From nose to tip, this mighty croc is three dudes long. You hear the term “man-eater” about crocodiles sometimes and it looks like this one wouldn’t have any trouble swallowing any of these guys whole if the day had gone another way.
Fill ‘er up.
It makes sense that the tanks beneath gas stations would be large. They have to be, otherwise the gas station would run out of fuel much too often.
Still, the guy installing them is so tiny next to them.
Rock on.
That’s a suitably big smile on this diver’s face after a close encounter with a surprisingly large and colorful rock lobster.
That’s right, it’s not just a song by the B-52’s. This specimen is about as large as rock lobsters can possibly get.
Wow.
I always thought wombats were more like the size of cats, where you could comfortably have one on your lap.
As this handsome fellow shows, having one on your lap isn’t completely out of the question but the comfort aspect is probably out the window.
That band doesn’t look very wide.
At the other end of the spectrum, what is tiny can also be quite impressive. This is fiber optic cable.
That light shining through a tiny carries a massive data stream, which allows you to watch Netflix without a hitch.
Nope.
Before the Hindenburg disaster, zeppelin travel wasn’t exactly pie in the sky. Travelers could have boarded at zeppelin docks atop skyscrapers.
Can you even imagine? Even a slight breeze at that altitude would put me right off.
Spacious.
Like a warehouse with wings, the Antonov cargo plane needs to be roomy and this look inside shows just how roomy it is. And amazingly enough, this isn’t even the largest model of Antonov out there.
Serious capacity.
If you think cargo planes are spacious, check out the storage on a tanker. This is how liquid natural gas travels across oceans.
And to think, each tanker has several compartments like these on board.
A gentle giant.
Moose are huge. They’re just absolute units. But that doesn’t mean they lack grace.
Just check out this mighty customer’s delicate leap over a downed log that the uploader says comes up to his chest.
“Found a moose tooth in the creek.”
Further evidence of what ridiculously large creatures they are, this moose tooth looks to be about the size of the palm of an adult’s hand.
And that’s just one tooth! They have a whole mouth full of those things!
Just because they could.
Effie the locomotive here was an experiment to see how small you could make a locomotive and still have it be worth your while.
You probably wouldn’t want to haul a lot of lumber with it, but it might be fun for some tourists to ride behind it.
Freedom flier.
I’m not sure if Clark here is large for a bald eagle or not but the fact that his head is about the same size as his handler’s is pretty revealing. My goodness, that’s a large bird.
