Yahoo Lifestyle 50 Things That Are Way, Way, Way, Way, Way, Way, Way, Way, Way, Way, Way, Way, Way Bigger Than Your Dumb Brain Thought They Were
1.Michelangelo's "David" is gigantic:
2.This is how big a Ford F-650 truck is compared to a typical sized person:
3.This is how big the scoreboard at the Denver Broncos' football stadium is:
4.And this is how huge the jumbotron at AT&T Stadium is:
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5.This is how big a nuclear cooling tower is compared to a person:
6.This is what a gorilla's hand looks like compared with our tiny hands:
7.This is what one of Shaq's championship rings looks like on a typical-sized human hand:
8.This is what the skeleton of the tallest man who ever lived, 8'1" Robert Wadlow, looked like:
9.And this is how big an average-size human is compared with a bunch of different bears and Robert Wadlow:
10.A school bus looks like a tiny little baby next to a haul truck:
11.This is how big a moose's tooth is:
12.Speaking of teeth, this is what a cow molar looks like compared to a human molar:
Cow dentists must make a killing.
13.And here's how big the jaws of the largest shark that ever lived, the Megalodon, were compared to a human:
14.This is how big an eagle's talons are:
15.This is how big a giant squid is compared with a human being:
16.This is the size of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki compared to a human:
This is a replica inside the Atomic Bomb Museum located in Nagasaki.
17.The Mars rovers are way, way bigger than you thought they were:
This is the Perseverance rover. It's not a little RC car!
18.This is how big a blue whale's heart is compared with a human being:
That right there is a real-deal, plastinated whale heart, too. Not a model.
19.This is how big the Hubble Space Telescope is compared with a few human beings:
This was taken in 1989, when the telescope was being prepared to be shot into space.
20.This monument to the doomed Donner Party shows just how deep the snow the unfortunate travelers had to deal with was:
21.This is how big a human hand is compared with a polar bear's footprint:
22.This is what the Panama Canal looked like while it was under construction:
Absolutely enormous.
23.This is what a husky looks like compared with a wolf:
24.And this is how big a wolf's paw print is compared with a human hand:
25.This is what the world's tallest man, Sultan Kösen, looks like next to his wife:
Originally from Turkey, Kösen stands 8 feet 3 inches tall.
26.Highway signs are gigantic:
And yet you still always make the wrong turn.
27.This is what the biggest leaf ever found in the Amazon Rainforest looks like compared with an adult man:
28.This is what Brian Shaw, four-time winner of the World's Strongest Man competition, looks like next to a couple of 200-pound bodybuilders:
Pipsqueaks!
29.Arnold Schwarzenegger looks like a pipsqueak standing next to Wilt Chamberlain and André the Giant:
This picture was taken shortly before Arnold's first wedding. Just kidding! It was on the set of Conan the Destroyer.
30.This is how gigantic the femur of a sauropod dinosaur is:
Sauropods are a classification of dinosaurs that includes the Brontosaurus.
31.This is how big Japan is compared with the East Coast of the United States:
32.This is how big the engines of the Space Shuttle Discovery are compared to a person:
33.This is the Antonov An-225 Mriya, the largest plane in the world compared to some cars:
Unfortunately, it was destroyed in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
34.This is how big a moose is compared with a van:
REALLY BIG!
35.Redwood trees are really, really, really, really big:
36.This is what a Quetzalcoatlus, the largest flying animal ever recorded, looks like compared to a human:
37.Traffic lights are absolutely enormous:
My goodness!
38.This is the world's tallest statue, the Statue of Unity compared to some tiny helicopters:
It's located in India and is 600 feet high.
39.This is how thick one of the cables holding up the Golden Gate Bridge is:
40.This is a BelAZ dump truck, the biggest dump truck in the world:
41.And this is what a person looks like compared to the wheel of the BelAZ dump truck:
That right there is a T R U C K.
42.This colorized picture of Ramses II's Great Temple at Abu Simbel in Egypt, taken circa 1865, shows just how enormous the colossal statues in front of the entrance are:
From Wonders of the Past, Volume II, 1933–34.
43.This is how big an average-sized comet is compared to Paris:
Specifically the Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet.
44.This is how big a size 18 shoe is compared with a can of soda:
Size 18 feet are gigantic...who knew?
45.This is how big a battleship, specifically the USS Iowa, is compared with a normal-size boat:
46.Speaking of which, submarines are also really, really big:
This is the Russian submarine Dmitry Donskoy, and those tiny things on it are people.
47.This is how big a giraffe's leg is:
48.This is what Jupiter would look like if it were as close as the moon:
49.This is how large the biggest seed on the planet, the double coconut seed, is compared with a person:
50.Elephant seals are really, really, really, really big:
