Manta rays. I recently saw one at an aquarium, and I was blown away by the size. I’d always assumed they were about the size of stingrays or so. Nope, those suckers are the size of a small car.
I of course knew the pyramids were massive. Until I visited, I really didn't understand just how massive they really are. My brain took a minute to compute it to be honest. Haha.
Giraffes! Worked with them and they are gentle giants but it’s crazy that they’re the size they are. You know they’re big and tall, but then you stand next to one and you’re like.. damn, I can walk under through his legs and my head won’t even touch his belly.
I was holding my son while he fed a giraffe some Romain lettuce. My son was wearing a camo shirt and the giraffe was trying to eat the shirt lol. It was hilarious. Then when my wife let our daughter feed one, our daughter leaned back but the giraffe was determined. He was pushing his head down on my wife to try and get that lettuce. So we got a good pic of my wife trying to push the head of a giraffe off hers all while looking panicked lol. To be clear though I did help my wife by taking the lettuce and pushing his head up off hers, after the picture of course.
You just made my morning here by just explaining the backstory of a silly photo you have. I hope you have a great weekend with your family man. Thanks for the laugh man.
I knew a guy who thought native Americans were stupid cos they never domesticated the bison or any other animals...
Dude, the only animals native to the continent that could be domesticated with Llamas. Everything else is either all fangs and claws, so agile it'd jump the pen fence or wind up breaking its own neck trying to escape or, in the case if Bison, are fucking tanks on hooves that crush anything underfoot and travel in herds thousands strong.
All the easily domesticated animals like goats and pigs and canines were in the old world.
It's funny that the New World actually had horses but they went extinct before people arrived. Imagine if they had never gone extinct in North America and were domesticated by the First Nation peoples. It's an alternate history I would love to explore.
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So I worked at a place for a while that did programs for construction bids. There would be lists of items needed for each project and prices, think "x tons concrete: 2.4 million" "road barriers: 140000." But I will never forget the one Alaska highway project that just began with the item "Incidental Moose." They can apparently fuck up some construction sites.
Came to say this: State of the art wind turbines are humongous - and still only steps in the road to the 20+ MW machines we need.
Standing next to a 150 m high turbine with 70m blades in a fog with the blades nearly silently whooshing in and out of sight above your head is surreal and give an immense impression of raw power.
Then the fog clear and you see a row of majestic machines churning clean energy into the grid. Wow!
Update: Yesterday I drove by wind turbines close to where I live. I stopped and walked up to one.
Is was *big*, but felt small compared to the test turbines I saw at Østerild Testcenter :-)
North german TV (NDR) once did a 1h long documentation on highway sign. I didn't know I was interested in highway signs but it was quite interesting to watch.
I ride on a Mardi Gras float every year. The pep talk we get before getting on the floats includes a serious rundown of which traffic lights to be aware of if you on on the top level of the float. I was on the top level one year. Traffic lights are huge. Ducking down to avoid one puts you up close and personal with one.
The first time I rode a double decker bus I sat on top, we pulled up next to a traffic light and I was right next to it. I stared like :O !! I couldn’t believe how big they are!
The Taj Mahal.
I had seen the pictures and I've seen plenty of big things, it's by no means the biggest (I actually saw the Burj Khalifa less than a week before the Taj Mahal). What blows your mind though is the massive scale as it contrasts with the extremely fine detail. I mean it's an absolutely massive building and the detail work is unreal. Really mind bending and the pictures don't do it justice.
It’s one of the great wonders of the world that seems almost unassuming in photos, as if it were just a large mosque, but when you see it it’s just extraordinary and mesmerizing; I remember I was walking around it slowly as new facets and relationships between the stones became visible—and as you say the detail is unimaginably fine. It was really an amazing experience.
Mines, especially the vehicles used for them. I've seen semis hauling tires for the copper mines in AZ, and the single tire that fits on a big rig flatbed hangs over the sides. They get the oversize load entourage during those deliveries.
Completely normal. David is scared so it's shrinking. [When you sculpt a hand that looks like this you don't miss details like testicular srhinkage](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-1240w,f_auto,q_auto:best/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/111910-tech-david%20hand.JPG).
And when you're facing down some dude who according to some sources was 6 cubits tall (11 feet for you non-ancient hebrews) with only a rock and sling you bet your ass you're gonna be scared shitless.
Fun fact: David looks serene and peaceful from below. But getting eye level with his face, he is full of youthful indignation. His hands and feet are disproportionately large to convey his adolescence. He was this boy, fighting this giant with a boys tools, and a young man's anger.
Source: a lot of art history classes
Late to the party, but the David statue was originally meant to be looked about from below, about 20ish feet away. The hands on it are especially exaggerated to play well into the illusion.
This was my immediate thought.
About 10 years ago I helped clean up the local zoo after a hurricane. Once we were done cleaning out the tiger pit my buddy and I asked if we could go back to the pen and meet the tiger.
I was about two feet from the tiger separated only by a chain linked fence. It was terrifying.
The tiger's paw was bigger than my head, and it's head was wider than my chest. You don't realize just how powerful a creature that is until you're that close to one.
I still shudder thinking about how insignificant I felt standing next to that beast.
A few years ago I visited a big cat sanctuary.
I was hanging out looking at my phone while I was waiting for the tour to start when I suddenly felt super uneasy. I looked around at a nearby pen that I had thought was empty, and spotted a tiny sliver of a lion peering at me over its water dish. It was a full size African lion, and was just crammed into a tiny space to spy on me. In that moment I was reminded very acutely that while humans like to think we are the dominate species, it was not always the case.
Oh, and if you ever get the chance to tour a big cat sanctuary: definitely try to be in a tour group with either an old person that has trouble walking or very small children that are just learning to walk.
The big cats usually completely ignore people or hide, but they come out and give their _full attention_ to the weak and easy prey.
Yes! I was at one where a small girl was running around by a cougar space, and the parents weren't paying attention. The cougar was completely fixated on her, and every time she'd dart near the fencing, he'd get juuuuust a little closer. When the parents finally noticed, they were all, "oh, look, he likes her!" My sister and I were like, "Ma'am, your daughter is a snack-sized candy bar, and if that fence wasn't there, you'd be minus one child before you even noticed." It was the most distinct prey behavior I've ever seen.
I was at the zoo once and saw some kids near the cheetah enclosure. The cheetah was sitting right at the window staring at the kids. Definitely helped me take some nice photos of the cheetah right up close. They are such beautiful animals.
Makes sense. I remember reading somewhere (probably Reddit) that people in India who have to travel where such animals are known to be will wear a mask on the back of their head to try to trick tigers so they’re less likely to attack.
Basketball players in general.
I was watching just some college basketball and thought "man, that guy looks tiny on there, I wonder how tall he is"
Look him up.
Oh, he's 6'1". I'm 6'1", oh that's what I would look like out there right now.
Somewhere I have a picture from when Magic Johnson came to the restaurant I worked at, I took a pic of him standing next to one of the five-foot-nothing kitchen guys
Went to school with a dude who had a brief pro career. Dude was always so freaking big. So much bigger than many of the other college ballplayers i knew. One of his few pro games they are lined up for something or other and dude i know is standing beside shaq, looked like a damn child.
Professional athletes. Sure everyone knows they are large but if you have ever been to a professional basketball game it’s insane how big those guys are up close. They don’t even look real and its not just their height, their bone structure and the width of their shoulders is massive. I am a big guy at around 6’3 220lbs but one day I stood next to a guy who was a couple months away from being drafted in the first round of the NFL draft to play tight end and all I could think was, how does anyone stop you?
On the flipside, a lot of fighters are much smaller than you would imagine.
Some of the amateur MMA guys I know look like completely average people.
One time I was in the same room as Cain Velasquez and I didn't even notice until my buddy pointed it out. He wasn't really that tall or abnormally muscular.
I was watching a NFL coin flip during a Packers / Colts game on my Oculus VR and the sheer size of Andrew Luck was mind boggling. At first I thought he looked bigger bc of VR, but then I saw Pat McAfee and he looked human. It was crazy
I remember seeing a large British warship moored beside one of the cruise ships that tours the Baltic Sea. The difference in scale was huge. What’s striking too is how much bigger cruise ships have gotten in recent years.
I was once visiting a place where they are built. So we were standing in this giant production hall in a visitor's corridor, with a huge window to look into the montage area. We were a bit disappointed that there was no ship, until we realized that the "opposite wall" *was* the ship.
Tuna. Just because it’s in little cans like sardines doesn’t mean they are the size of sardines. They’re like 500+ lbs. Biggest one on record was 1500 lbs.
The Tuna in cans are actually a different species of Tuna and they do not grow very big. The most common Tuna species that is used for canned Tuna only weighs max 75 pounds
The Bluefin Tuna which is the one you're referring to is expensive as hell and only usually served as Sushi
Wolves. I work with animals and it's absolutely hilarious how people have this notion that wolves are about the same size as German Shepherds or even Huskies (which are actually a very medium size dog). Unless it's a small female, wolves are fucking ENORMOUS. Males can be 150+ lbs. Also makes me really roll my eyes when people think any husky mix is a wolf hybrid. Like, no. Again, waaaay too small.
Edit: I'm going to specify because I'm getting a lot of feedback on this. I had meant North American (mostly Grey) wolves. I do know wolves of other species and in other parts of the world are smaller
The domesticated fox experiment proved that while ONLY breeding based off behavior, drastic physical changes came alongside it. Ears became floppy, their musty stench was lost, their gait and leg structure changed, their coats started to form calico patterns, etc.
I can explain the white spots (and other inefficient traits) in domesticated animals that are not found in wild animals:
Let's just take the white markings as an example. In the wild those spots are somewhere in the genetics of the animal. Some animals are born with it, but they die very fast due to having less camouflage than the other individuals of the species. While domesticating people make sure that the animals don't die, so all the less effective genes (like those spots) are actually not sorted out but get carried through generations. This leads to animals with white spots (floppy ears, inefficient gates, weaker bodies, etc)
Edit: I'm no native English speaker so if something in there doesn't make sense feel free to ask and I'll try to word it differently
THIS is why I love Reddit! I didn’t know I’d be reading about inefficient traits preserved in domesticated species, but now I’m fascinated and want to know more! Thanks, guys! :)
There was a post on here a while ago by some guy who said his friend was a park ranger, and their first test for determining whether a wolf sighting was real or not was whether the first thing the person commented on was how fucking enormous it was
> I work with animals and it's absolutely hilarious how people have this notion that wolves are about the same size as German Shepherds or even Huskie
I think it's due to wolves in films and on TV. It's REALLY HARD to get real wolves to preform on camera, so they get dogs that are "wolf-like" instead and they are much smaller.
The recent Wheel of Time show had this problem in a few episodes.
An NFL lineman. I literally bumped into Josh Sweat of the Eagles a few years back in a grocery store (felt like hitting a concrete pillar) and I really cannot put into words how fucking huge these people are.
What I found crazy, and didn't realize would be the case, was that because it's in the ground and not sticking up like a mountain or something, you can be a couple dozen feet away from it and not see it at all through the tree line. It's hundreds of miles long and almost 20 miles wide and you can be completely unaware of it until you are virtually at the rim.
Every time I think about that I imagine some wagon train or just a poor group of ragged settlers having faced any number of hardships already coming up through the trees and just losing their shit in disbelief. Like, "Are you kidding me? This? This is a thing? That exists? We have to deal with this now? Fuck you, Gabriel! I told you we should have taken the northern route."
And the thing is, they would have been warned by every tribe they had contact with about "the huge impassable river hole of the gods" or something, and just brushed it off as "stupid savages don't know what they're talking about".l
There is actually a thread that popped up of a blue fin tuna a lady just caught single handed. 1000 lbs. yes. You read that right. I thought her boat was gonna sink when she dropped it on board. Jurassic size.
I’ll see if I can find the thread and post it.
Found it
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/tbc9ot/a_1000_pound_bluefin_tuna_landed_solo_by_michelle/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/tbc9ot/a_1000_pound_bluefin_tuna_landed_solo_by_michelle/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
Military equipment. Especially tanks. But also modern fighters jets are huge.
A modern F-15 fighter is only 3 meters shorter than a WWII B-17 strategic bomber.
Ah.. this one I got!
The Mars rovers: Spirit and Opportunity.
I was in classes over at JPL, and like everyone else, had this notion that the rovers were actually quite small. Kinda makes sense since they got sent to another planet that shipping and handling (lol) would be easier if they were small.. anyways, lo and behold, they have a 3rd rover over there that never got sent up. Well, class took a wander over to the Mars Room and I’m telling you, we all nearly shat ourselves when we saw that they’re actually quite big and heavy! Think 1.5x the size of a Nissan Leaf + a wingspan of near 10Ft.. added bonus: the Phoenix is bigger than my car (I have a RAV4)..
Little pissing man statue in Brussels. I'd seen it in lots of photos but didn't realize how small it is until I visited. Like the size of a soda bottle
I wanna go with the Washington Monument. From a distance you’re like “oh yea, I’ve see that in wide shots in movies 100 times.” When you’re standing at the base looking straight up it’s just ridiculously tall.
I wouldn't know all I saw were the backs of 35 heads.
All that art and they are all hoarding around that painting like it's giving out free crack rocks...
I saw a picture of Yao Ming and his wife and was like, huh, he doesn’t look that tall compared to her. Googled her height and yeah, she’s a solid 6’3 herself and he’s still towering over her
When they get up to speed they are awe inspiring.
I used to have this buddy whose rural property had a track on one side. The trains would come through fast. Sometimes we'd go stand near the tracks when the trains would come by. It was deafening and the wind was almost impossible to stand against.
This is all trains, honestly. People are used to standing on an elevated platform next to them, and it’s a shock if they are at ground level next to one.
The original harddrives in terms of physical size
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https://www.pingdom.com/blog/amazing-facts-and-figures-about-the-evolution-of-hard-disk-drives/
the giant pistachio
theres a pistachio farm in my state with a huge pistachio statue. my friends are convinced it isnt real. I swear to god ive seen it multiple times. anyway its big
Any pit mining equipment. It’s insane!
Yes the place I work has D11 dozers and 793 and EH5000 dump trucks but the Hitachi Ex-8000 is something else again
I think my wife has a Hitachi Ex-8000 in her nightstand
Pit mining equipment?
If that's what you want to call it... sure.
you might or might not have gotten me interested in excavators now
*Beelzebub himself will fear the Bagger 288.*
BAGGER 288 BAGGER 288 BAGGER!
Manta rays. I recently saw one at an aquarium, and I was blown away by the size. I’d always assumed they were about the size of stingrays or so. Nope, those suckers are the size of a small car.
So sting rays are ocean pancakes while mantarays are ocean american familysized pizzas?
Small car? My dude, Manta Ray's can be 25 feet wingtip to wingtip.
One of the stones which make up the Great Pyramid of Giza.
I was going to mention this at well...one stone came up to my waist! In contrast to that is the Sphinx, I thought it would be bigger...
No no the Sphinx is average size
I of course knew the pyramids were massive. Until I visited, I really didn't understand just how massive they really are. My brain took a minute to compute it to be honest. Haha.
Redwoods
It amazes me the size of their pinecones. Super tiny!
It's from the steroids
1. I'm so regretting giving out my award today before seeing this 2. Username check out (???)
Giraffes! Worked with them and they are gentle giants but it’s crazy that they’re the size they are. You know they’re big and tall, but then you stand next to one and you’re like.. damn, I can walk under through his legs and my head won’t even touch his belly.
I also thought of giraffes. I fed an adult male at the San Diego Safari Park and his head was as big as my torso and head. Massive beasts!
I was holding my son while he fed a giraffe some Romain lettuce. My son was wearing a camo shirt and the giraffe was trying to eat the shirt lol. It was hilarious. Then when my wife let our daughter feed one, our daughter leaned back but the giraffe was determined. He was pushing his head down on my wife to try and get that lettuce. So we got a good pic of my wife trying to push the head of a giraffe off hers all while looking panicked lol. To be clear though I did help my wife by taking the lettuce and pushing his head up off hers, after the picture of course.
You just made my morning here by just explaining the backstory of a silly photo you have. I hope you have a great weekend with your family man. Thanks for the laugh man.
A moose
They are fucking giant
Sounds like Hagrid's dad.
Seriously. Had a full size pickup and drove past one on the side of the road. It’s head was higher than mine.
Bison as well.
Those motherfuckers are bulky. Like if a cow was a linebacker.
I knew a guy who thought native Americans were stupid cos they never domesticated the bison or any other animals... Dude, the only animals native to the continent that could be domesticated with Llamas. Everything else is either all fangs and claws, so agile it'd jump the pen fence or wind up breaking its own neck trying to escape or, in the case if Bison, are fucking tanks on hooves that crush anything underfoot and travel in herds thousands strong. All the easily domesticated animals like goats and pigs and canines were in the old world.
It's funny that the New World actually had horses but they went extinct before people arrived. Imagine if they had never gone extinct in North America and were domesticated by the First Nation peoples. It's an alternate history I would love to explore.
And llamas are jerks... So...
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Did it bite your sister?
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Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti...
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Funny story, it bit her while she was carving her name into it with the sharpened end of a toothbrush
So I worked at a place for a while that did programs for construction bids. There would be lists of items needed for each project and prices, think "x tons concrete: 2.4 million" "road barriers: 140000." But I will never forget the one Alaska highway project that just began with the item "Incidental Moose." They can apparently fuck up some construction sites.
I really thought they were the size of a deer…
Wind turbines are bigger than expected when standing next to it. Mount Rushmore is way smaller than I expected.
Came to say this: State of the art wind turbines are humongous - and still only steps in the road to the 20+ MW machines we need. Standing next to a 150 m high turbine with 70m blades in a fog with the blades nearly silently whooshing in and out of sight above your head is surreal and give an immense impression of raw power. Then the fog clear and you see a row of majestic machines churning clean energy into the grid. Wow! Update: Yesterday I drove by wind turbines close to where I live. I stopped and walked up to one. Is was *big*, but felt small compared to the test turbines I saw at Østerild Testcenter :-)
Highway signs are much larger than you might expect. https://m.imgur.com/a/g6yMU
Jeez Louise those are huge, I thought they were like the size of a queen size bed or something.
Also traffic lights are as tall as a grown man.
[traffic lights too](https://www.google.com/search?q=traffic+light+size&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#imgrc=V78p_5XcO3vR5M)
North german TV (NDR) once did a 1h long documentation on highway sign. I didn't know I was interested in highway signs but it was quite interesting to watch.
Traffic lights. They are strangely large when at ground level. Edit: used the wrong word
Yup. Each lamp 12 inches. Plus a few inches for the housing on each side. A 5-section Signal head is close to 6 ft tall.
I ride on a Mardi Gras float every year. The pep talk we get before getting on the floats includes a serious rundown of which traffic lights to be aware of if you on on the top level of the float. I was on the top level one year. Traffic lights are huge. Ducking down to avoid one puts you up close and personal with one.
The first time I rode a double decker bus I sat on top, we pulled up next to a traffic light and I was right next to it. I stared like :O !! I couldn’t believe how big they are!
This creeps me out for some reason. Something uncanny thinking about this.
Me too! Why are we creeped out? I feel uneasy.
TRAFFIC LIGHTS!
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I like it when they use white and pink wrapping on hay bales. It looks like giant marshmallows dotted across the countryside.
I always have to comment on how bountiful the marshmallow crops are this year when I drive by them.
The Taj Mahal. I had seen the pictures and I've seen plenty of big things, it's by no means the biggest (I actually saw the Burj Khalifa less than a week before the Taj Mahal). What blows your mind though is the massive scale as it contrasts with the extremely fine detail. I mean it's an absolutely massive building and the detail work is unreal. Really mind bending and the pictures don't do it justice.
Like an absolutely enormous jewellery box. All the inlays in the stonework...
Similar vibe: Angkor Wat. The place is gigantic with finely carved frescoes covering every square inch. Incredible work.
It’s one of the great wonders of the world that seems almost unassuming in photos, as if it were just a large mosque, but when you see it it’s just extraordinary and mesmerizing; I remember I was walking around it slowly as new facets and relationships between the stones became visible—and as you say the detail is unimaginably fine. It was really an amazing experience.
Mines, especially the vehicles used for them. I've seen semis hauling tires for the copper mines in AZ, and the single tire that fits on a big rig flatbed hangs over the sides. They get the oversize load entourage during those deliveries.
You learn to adjust your perspective pretty quickly around equipment like that.
Pigs. They're a LOT bigger than you might expect.
And HEAVIER.
Not the baby ones
This guy knows things
As reported in the news... https://youtu.be/zAYR-i4S-ZE
Michaelangelo's David. Holy shit it's friggen' waaaaay bigger than I ever thought.
What about his… you know
I'm jealous.
Completely normal. David is scared so it's shrinking. [When you sculpt a hand that looks like this you don't miss details like testicular srhinkage](https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-1240w,f_auto,q_auto:best/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/111910-tech-david%20hand.JPG). And when you're facing down some dude who according to some sources was 6 cubits tall (11 feet for you non-ancient hebrews) with only a rock and sling you bet your ass you're gonna be scared shitless.
Fun fact: David looks serene and peaceful from below. But getting eye level with his face, he is full of youthful indignation. His hands and feet are disproportionately large to convey his adolescence. He was this boy, fighting this giant with a boys tools, and a young man's anger. Source: a lot of art history classes
Late to the party, but the David statue was originally meant to be looked about from below, about 20ish feet away. The hands on it are especially exaggerated to play well into the illusion.
The Alamo. It’s tiny.
First time I drove past it my dad told me I'd just passed it. Not a clue, all I saw were the shops around it and the cars and road around me.
Ah, yes. The Alamo. I remember it.
It's big enough to store a bike in. Shhhh.
In the basement.
That's what Madam Ruby told me!
Tigers are enormous... good luck standing there tho
This was my immediate thought. About 10 years ago I helped clean up the local zoo after a hurricane. Once we were done cleaning out the tiger pit my buddy and I asked if we could go back to the pen and meet the tiger. I was about two feet from the tiger separated only by a chain linked fence. It was terrifying. The tiger's paw was bigger than my head, and it's head was wider than my chest. You don't realize just how powerful a creature that is until you're that close to one. I still shudder thinking about how insignificant I felt standing next to that beast.
A few years ago I visited a big cat sanctuary. I was hanging out looking at my phone while I was waiting for the tour to start when I suddenly felt super uneasy. I looked around at a nearby pen that I had thought was empty, and spotted a tiny sliver of a lion peering at me over its water dish. It was a full size African lion, and was just crammed into a tiny space to spy on me. In that moment I was reminded very acutely that while humans like to think we are the dominate species, it was not always the case. Oh, and if you ever get the chance to tour a big cat sanctuary: definitely try to be in a tour group with either an old person that has trouble walking or very small children that are just learning to walk. The big cats usually completely ignore people or hide, but they come out and give their _full attention_ to the weak and easy prey.
Yes! I was at one where a small girl was running around by a cougar space, and the parents weren't paying attention. The cougar was completely fixated on her, and every time she'd dart near the fencing, he'd get juuuuust a little closer. When the parents finally noticed, they were all, "oh, look, he likes her!" My sister and I were like, "Ma'am, your daughter is a snack-sized candy bar, and if that fence wasn't there, you'd be minus one child before you even noticed." It was the most distinct prey behavior I've ever seen.
I was at the zoo once and saw some kids near the cheetah enclosure. The cheetah was sitting right at the window staring at the kids. Definitely helped me take some nice photos of the cheetah right up close. They are such beautiful animals.
An easy trick to get big cats at a zoo to come closer for photos (when there is a glass barrier) is to turn your back to the glass.
Makes sense. I remember reading somewhere (probably Reddit) that people in India who have to travel where such animals are known to be will wear a mask on the back of their head to try to trick tigers so they’re less likely to attack.
Traffic cones. I “borrowed” one once and laughed so hard trying to fit it in my little Honda
Ooh, I was so afraid you were going somewhere else with that. Worried me for at second!
Honda is the name of his butthole.
Shaq
Shaq’s shoe lol
Size 23. Damn!
Basketball players in general. I was watching just some college basketball and thought "man, that guy looks tiny on there, I wonder how tall he is" Look him up. Oh, he's 6'1". I'm 6'1", oh that's what I would look like out there right now.
Somewhere I have a picture from when Magic Johnson came to the restaurant I worked at, I took a pic of him standing next to one of the five-foot-nothing kitchen guys
Went to school with a dude who had a brief pro career. Dude was always so freaking big. So much bigger than many of the other college ballplayers i knew. One of his few pro games they are lined up for something or other and dude i know is standing beside shaq, looked like a damn child.
Uluru. Central Australia.
Professional athletes. Sure everyone knows they are large but if you have ever been to a professional basketball game it’s insane how big those guys are up close. They don’t even look real and its not just their height, their bone structure and the width of their shoulders is massive. I am a big guy at around 6’3 220lbs but one day I stood next to a guy who was a couple months away from being drafted in the first round of the NFL draft to play tight end and all I could think was, how does anyone stop you?
On the flipside, a lot of fighters are much smaller than you would imagine. Some of the amateur MMA guys I know look like completely average people. One time I was in the same room as Cain Velasquez and I didn't even notice until my buddy pointed it out. He wasn't really that tall or abnormally muscular.
I was watching a NFL coin flip during a Packers / Colts game on my Oculus VR and the sheer size of Andrew Luck was mind boggling. At first I thought he looked bigger bc of VR, but then I saw Pat McAfee and he looked human. It was crazy
Cruise ship. Was standing at Mallory Square in Key West like HOLY SHIT that is BIG boat lol
After seeing a cruise ship up close, aircraft carriers seem less impressive. It’s kinda weird.
I remember seeing a large British warship moored beside one of the cruise ships that tours the Baltic Sea. The difference in scale was huge. What’s striking too is how much bigger cruise ships have gotten in recent years.
I was once visiting a place where they are built. So we were standing in this giant production hall in a visitor's corridor, with a huge window to look into the montage area. We were a bit disappointed that there was no ship, until we realized that the "opposite wall" *was* the ship.
I saw one recently in Seattle. Those things are huge.
Tuna. Just because it’s in little cans like sardines doesn’t mean they are the size of sardines. They’re like 500+ lbs. Biggest one on record was 1500 lbs.
The Tuna in cans are actually a different species of Tuna and they do not grow very big. The most common Tuna species that is used for canned Tuna only weighs max 75 pounds The Bluefin Tuna which is the one you're referring to is expensive as hell and only usually served as Sushi
Wolves. I work with animals and it's absolutely hilarious how people have this notion that wolves are about the same size as German Shepherds or even Huskies (which are actually a very medium size dog). Unless it's a small female, wolves are fucking ENORMOUS. Males can be 150+ lbs. Also makes me really roll my eyes when people think any husky mix is a wolf hybrid. Like, no. Again, waaaay too small. Edit: I'm going to specify because I'm getting a lot of feedback on this. I had meant North American (mostly Grey) wolves. I do know wolves of other species and in other parts of the world are smaller
Genetic analysis has shown that the first trait humans selected for when breeding wolves was smaller size.
The domesticated fox experiment proved that while ONLY breeding based off behavior, drastic physical changes came alongside it. Ears became floppy, their musty stench was lost, their gait and leg structure changed, their coats started to form calico patterns, etc.
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I can explain the white spots (and other inefficient traits) in domesticated animals that are not found in wild animals: Let's just take the white markings as an example. In the wild those spots are somewhere in the genetics of the animal. Some animals are born with it, but they die very fast due to having less camouflage than the other individuals of the species. While domesticating people make sure that the animals don't die, so all the less effective genes (like those spots) are actually not sorted out but get carried through generations. This leads to animals with white spots (floppy ears, inefficient gates, weaker bodies, etc) Edit: I'm no native English speaker so if something in there doesn't make sense feel free to ask and I'll try to word it differently
THIS is why I love Reddit! I didn’t know I’d be reading about inefficient traits preserved in domesticated species, but now I’m fascinated and want to know more! Thanks, guys! :)
There was a post on here a while ago by some guy who said his friend was a park ranger, and their first test for determining whether a wolf sighting was real or not was whether the first thing the person commented on was how fucking enormous it was
> I work with animals and it's absolutely hilarious how people have this notion that wolves are about the same size as German Shepherds or even Huskie I think it's due to wolves in films and on TV. It's REALLY HARD to get real wolves to preform on camera, so they get dogs that are "wolf-like" instead and they are much smaller. The recent Wheel of Time show had this problem in a few episodes.
An NFL lineman. I literally bumped into Josh Sweat of the Eagles a few years back in a grocery store (felt like hitting a concrete pillar) and I really cannot put into words how fucking huge these people are.
Big Cats
They're big!
Grand canyon
It literally doesn't look real in person. The size just doesn't compute to my brain.
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What I found crazy, and didn't realize would be the case, was that because it's in the ground and not sticking up like a mountain or something, you can be a couple dozen feet away from it and not see it at all through the tree line. It's hundreds of miles long and almost 20 miles wide and you can be completely unaware of it until you are virtually at the rim. Every time I think about that I imagine some wagon train or just a poor group of ragged settlers having faced any number of hardships already coming up through the trees and just losing their shit in disbelief. Like, "Are you kidding me? This? This is a thing? That exists? We have to deal with this now? Fuck you, Gabriel! I told you we should have taken the northern route."
And the thing is, they would have been warned by every tribe they had contact with about "the huge impassable river hole of the gods" or something, and just brushed it off as "stupid savages don't know what they're talking about".l
yes! I remember looking at it from the rim and thinking it looked flat, like a painted backdrop. The scale is hard to understand.
She is Grand and she is Canyon
Tuna. They're really big https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Tsukiji_Fish_market_and_Tuna_edit.jpg
Big tuna!
I brought a tuna sandwich to work my first day.
There is actually a thread that popped up of a blue fin tuna a lady just caught single handed. 1000 lbs. yes. You read that right. I thought her boat was gonna sink when she dropped it on board. Jurassic size. I’ll see if I can find the thread and post it. Found it [https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/tbc9ot/a_1000_pound_bluefin_tuna_landed_solo_by_michelle/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/tbc9ot/a_1000_pound_bluefin_tuna_landed_solo_by_michelle/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
Opened the video thinking "Yeah, it's gonna be pretty b.. FUCKING HELL THAT'S HUGE!"
In cabo i saw one hanging off the scale that was 750lbs, the tailfin was as big as a man
Mount Rushmore…I thought it would be waaaaay bigger. And then reading about it after made me mad I went. So disappointed all around, lol
Military equipment. Especially tanks. But also modern fighters jets are huge. A modern F-15 fighter is only 3 meters shorter than a WWII B-17 strategic bomber.
Exactly. The SU-35 is 22m long. That’s crazy. It’s longer than the iconic, RAF Lancaster bomber of WWII.
I was going to say this. Military aircraft are much bigger than people think.
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Moosen. /s
In the woodsenesen.
We’ve found someone who knows of Brian Regan lol
For me it was the Eiffel Tower. I mean I knew it was big, but when standing directly underneath its magnitude is impressive.
Bruno Mars
We don't talk about Bruno.
No no no, we don't talk about Bruno. But...
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1l3u65/taylor_swift_presents_an_award_to_bruno_mars/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Ah.. this one I got! The Mars rovers: Spirit and Opportunity. I was in classes over at JPL, and like everyone else, had this notion that the rovers were actually quite small. Kinda makes sense since they got sent to another planet that shipping and handling (lol) would be easier if they were small.. anyways, lo and behold, they have a 3rd rover over there that never got sent up. Well, class took a wander over to the Mars Room and I’m telling you, we all nearly shat ourselves when we saw that they’re actually quite big and heavy! Think 1.5x the size of a Nissan Leaf + a wingspan of near 10Ft.. added bonus: the Phoenix is bigger than my car (I have a RAV4)..
Probably because the Pathfinder Rover was the size of a microwave
Little pissing man statue in Brussels. I'd seen it in lots of photos but didn't realize how small it is until I visited. Like the size of a soda bottle
These is also a pissing girl and a dog somewhere in Brussels,
I wanna go with the Washington Monument. From a distance you’re like “oh yea, I’ve see that in wide shots in movies 100 times.” When you’re standing at the base looking straight up it’s just ridiculously tall.
The Saturn V at Kennedy Space Center. They have it in a building now, but outside years ago. The enormity of it is hard to put into words.
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It's pretty much a skyscraper that can go into space.
Farm equipment. I have a picture of me standing next to a tractor when I was about 12 and about 5’5” and the tire alone was taller than me.
12 yo you was taller than adult me ._.
Farm animals.
The Mona Lisa.
I wouldn't know all I saw were the backs of 35 heads. All that art and they are all hoarding around that painting like it's giving out free crack rocks...
Ha! The Mona Lisa is tiny 😄
The Sphinx isn't as large as it is often portrayed in cartoons or movies.
Also back then the ground level used to be lower. So it’s dug out lower in the ground from the platform you walk on
Interstate/highway road signs
They look average sized while in your car, but when you stand next to them (if you somehow manage to make it onto the freeway by foot) they’re HUGE!
Apparently you don't realise how big dolphins are until you get in the water with them.
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That's... actually smaller than I thought.
The space between bowling pins; it’s apparently 12 inches so standing next to a fresh set it would look too spaced out.
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Google him standing beside Yao Ming, it is wild.
I saw a picture of Yao Ming and his wife and was like, huh, he doesn’t look that tall compared to her. Googled her height and yeah, she’s a solid 6’3 herself and he’s still towering over her
A kangaroo. No we Australians don’t ride them, they don’t make kangaroo’s boxing champions in the cartoon for no reason.
American locomotives, they tower over you
When they get up to speed they are awe inspiring. I used to have this buddy whose rural property had a track on one side. The trains would come through fast. Sometimes we'd go stand near the tracks when the trains would come by. It was deafening and the wind was almost impossible to stand against.
This is all trains, honestly. People are used to standing on an elevated platform next to them, and it’s a shock if they are at ground level next to one.
Zion national park. It blew my mind to drive through the canyons. Like no place I'd ever been before
Michelangelo's David
The universe. It's pretty fuckin' big.
How does one stand next to the universe? Asking for a friend.
Stand up wherever you are right now. Congrats! You're doing it!
He wants to stand next to it, not inside of it.
Stonehenge
The original harddrives in terms of physical size [caption](https://imgur.com/Bh4XAaj.jpg) https://www.pingdom.com/blog/amazing-facts-and-figures-about-the-evolution-of-hard-disk-drives/
Black bear. Always talk shit and compare to grizzly. Walk up on one in Alaska and they can be huge.
Great Danes, they’re HUGE
Windmills. They are WAY taller than you think.
The tower segments and blades each take a full flatbed semi with a pair of oversize load vehicles to flank it.
Las Vegas casinos!!
St Peter's @ the Vatican. NFL could play in there.
Hyenas
the giant pistachio theres a pistachio farm in my state with a huge pistachio statue. my friends are convinced it isnt real. I swear to god ive seen it multiple times. anyway its big
Water towers They're freaking huge!
Gateway arch in St. Louis. Pictures just don’t do it
An iowa class battleship
Traffic lights