Mike
I grew up in San Francisco. Right across the Golden Gate Bridge is a magical place called Muir Woods. I went there for the first time on a school field trip when I was 10. On the bus ride, our teacher told us about how enormous the ancient redwood trees were and I thought I could wrap my young mind around it but I was wrong. If you’ve never seen one in person, you probably can’t either. These trees are thousands of years old. I stood at the foot of one and realized just how small I was.
Sometimes you need a human for scale.
1. Thought it was much bigger than it actually is. $11.7 million gold cube in Central Park, NYC
2. The largest meteorite on earth is this 60 tonnes monster named Hoba. It is located in Namibia, and has never been moved.
3. Eiffel Tower
4. Argentinosaurus, the largest member of the titanosaurs. Measuring up to 36.6 m (120 ft) in length and weighing up to 84 tons, this behemoth is widely considered to be the largest living thing to ever walk on land.
5. Vet holding harpy eagle’s claw for examination.
6. Polar bear paw.
7. Tallest flagpole in Finland (I’m hugging it bottom right)
8. Guan Yu Statue – Jingzhou, China
9. 118 year old dogwood
10. Big Doggo
11. Woman’s pet cat is so big people mistake him for a dog.
12. World’s heaviest hinged door. Used to protect the RTNS-II, the world’s most powerful source of continuous fusion neutrons.
13. World’s largest two-wheeled caravan – built in 1990 for H.E Sheik Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi.
14. Yakutat, Alaska got 6 feet of snow, collapsing roofs and prompting an emergency declaration.
15. The size difference between Shaquille O’Neal and Simone Biles
16. A Wind Turbine that fell over.
17. “World’s Largest Dinosaur” roadside attraction – modeled after a T-Rex but considerably larger than any fossil find.
18. Spruce Goose – Hughes H-4 Hercules – Hughes Aircraft Company
19. The true size of Michelangelo’s David. The marble sculpture was commissioned in 1501, and took around 3 years to make. He stands at 17 feet tall, weighs more than 12,000 pounds, and was sculpted from a single block of white marble.
20. Pulled between 2 bulldozers to clear land.
21. 18.5 meter snow baby
