35 Times Size Mattered, So They Used A Human For Scale

Ever stumbled upon something so staggeringly huge that you just had to grab the nearest person and say, “Here, stand next to this, I need to prove it’s not a Photoshop job”? Well, you’re not alone apparently.

1. Triceratops femur (left) vs Elephant femur (right)

2. Mycena subcyanocephala

3. You don’t really get a good sense of scale from the ground

4. Pizza – Big Lou’s Pizza – San Antonio, Texas

5. Bedouin tents in Morocco

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6. 1919; Seattle, Washington. Stacks of lumber drying at the Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing Company’s mill in Ballard.

7. Military drones are bigger than I thought.

8. A Tunnel Dug By The Giant Ground Sloth In Brazil (10,000 Years Ago)

9. At a place that makes windshields for vehicles, the excess glass gets blown off to the side. This is the excess, with a human for scale. My first post here. Hope it fits.

10. The German airship ‘Hindenburg’ takes shape in 1932.

11. Inside LNG cargo tanker

12. This 122-foot (37 m) snow woman built by locals in Bethel, Maine, USA, had 27-foot (8.2 m) evergreen trees for arms and skis for eyelashes, and holds the Guinness world record for being the tallest snow person.

13. 10Mb hard drive from the late 1960’s

14. The largest airship hangar, now transformed into a water resort (people at bottom)

15. My Lego creation of a Covenant Assault Carrier

16. 1959 Kenworth 963 6×6

17. Giant South African Bullfrog.

18. My husband climbing redwoods. Dead center. Looks like he’s sitting on the branch cutting through the middle horizontally.

19. Nuclear reactor being forged

20. PAGEOS, an early satellite. 100′ in diameter, it was put into orbit so that radio signals could be bounced off of it.

21. The massive wooden Sibley Breaker in Pennsylvania. Built in 1886, destroyed by fire in 1906.

22. The tusk of a mammoth found in Siberia

23. Squid

24. One of the biggest and most stunning stepwells in the entire world is the Chand Baori.

25. Brest Hero – Fortress Brest – Brest, Belarus

26. Hindenburg airship

27. Traveling by blimp in the 1920s

28. Statue of Ramesses II – Grand Egyptian Museum – Giza, Egypt

29. Absaloute unit of guinea pig

30. The amphibious WWII landing craft vehicle at Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, TN

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32. Argentinosaurus leg

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34. Absolute door unit

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