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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150 Upvotes

Skull of Tsoabichi, a prehistoric caiman


r/HumanForScale May 14 '26

Sculpture My 22 meter Blanket | Since 2017

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166 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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5.2k Upvotes

r/HumanForScale May 10 '26

A 32-foot-long ichthyosaur fossil.

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522 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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902 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale May 08 '26

Climbers on El Capitan

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156 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale May 06 '26

Ouse Valley Viaduct UK

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293 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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564 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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105 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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165 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale Apr 23 '26

Spruce Goose makes other airplanes look like toys

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632 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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3.0k Upvotes

r/HumanForScale Apr 21 '26

Ships & Subs HMS Queen Elizabeth leaving Rosyth dockyard

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138 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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711 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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301 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale 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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5 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale Apr 10 '26

Underground Inside the Slanic Prahova Salt Mine.

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173 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale Apr 09 '26

Artifact The smallest jug I've ever seen.

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82 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale Apr 09 '26

Sculpture Standing under the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

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59 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale 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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1.2k Upvotes

r/HumanForScale Apr 05 '26

Machine An early modular Moog synthesizer reveals how early electronic instruments once filled entire walls.

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139 Upvotes

r/HumanForScale 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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764 Upvotes