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36 Sizes, Scales and Proportions We Just Can’t Wrap Our Heads Around

Even if we could physically wrap our heads around things, some of these would be way too big!

36 Sizes, Scales and Proportions We Just Can’t Wrap Our Heads Around

April 20, 2024

It’s wild to think that the largest things in the universe are made up of the smallest things in the universe. Those atoms really do add up. Ha! Maybe we should call them “add-ems.” You know, like add ‘em up! Come for the size facts, stay for the size puns!

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The Great Pyramid of Giza was the largest man-made structure in existence for thousands of years. Originally 481 feet tall, it has shrunk by 25 feet due to erosion CRACKED.COM — Source

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This is a comet next to Los Angeles. This comet, Churyumov-Gerasimenko, makes Los Angeles look tiny- but you could theoretically walk across it in an hour. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Some caves are so large they contain their own rivers and forests. The largest cave ever discovered, Vietnam's Hang Son Doong, could fit 40 New York skyscrapers with room to spare. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Giant Manta Rays can have up to a 29 foot long wingspan They can weigh over 5,300 pounds and live up to 40 years. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Teletubbies

The Teletubbies were giants. The smallest character, Ро, was 6.6 feet tall and the largest character, Tinky Winky, was 10 feet tall. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Michelangelo's David is over 17 feet tall. And weighs over 12,000 pounds. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Within the wingspan of a single B-2 Stealth Bomber, You Could Fit: ... 172 Feet 3 F-14 Fighters 48 Feet 40 Feet 4 Wright Flyers 30 Honda Civics 6 Feet 114 Men Lined Up Shoulder to Shoulder H GRACKED COM 1.5 Feet — Source

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EARTH SUN SUN NML CYGNI CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM These tiny crystalline flowers are growing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial... ...on a penny. http://hyperallergic.com/72044/sculpting-the-tiniest-flowers-in-the-world-to-build-the-future-of-nanotechnologyl — Source

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At 7-8mm in length, the Paedophryne amauensis frog from Papua New Guinea are the smallest known vertebrates on Earth. Here's one sitting on a dime. CRACKED.COM — Source

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This is a satellite view of the Grand Canyon: This is Vallis Marineris, on Mars: Here's how they'd look at the same scale: CRACKED.COM — Source

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Olympus Mons (Mars) Mount Everest CRACKED COM — Source

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1936 19.66 Empire State Buildings Weight of 1 Hoover Dam CRACKED COM — Source

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This speck of dust Is half way between the size... Of this... And this CRACKED.COM — Source

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GRAGKED.COM This is the world's largest working rifle. It is owned by James А. DeCaine (USA) and it is 10.18 m (33 ft 4 in) long. — Source

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This is the world's longest insect; it's 24.6 inches long. Species name: Phryganistria chinensis Zhao The researcher who found it initially mistook it for part of a tree. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM This is the actual size of a wind turbine blade. — Source

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The Statue of Unity

597 ft. The Statue of Unity in India is so tall the Statue of Liberty could barely touch his knees with her torch. 152 ft. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The atom is SO infinitesimally small that a single grain of sand contains more atoms than all the beaches of the world contain grains of sand CRACKED.COM — Source

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NEUTRON STARS ARE THE DENSEST OBJECTS IN THE UNIVERSE (OUTSIDE THE INFINITY DENSITY OF BLACK HOLES) A GRAIN OF SAND MADE FROM A NEUTRON STAR WOULD WEIGH AS MUCH AS 3 EIFFEL TOWERS GRAIN OF NEUTRON SAND CRACKED.COM — Source

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The highest mountains in the world are nothing compared to the sheer massiveness of our planet. In fact, if you shrunk the Earth down to the size of a billiard ball... SI 12 M ...it would be smoother than the billiard ball. GRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM IF THE MOON WAS AS BIG AS JUPITER, THIS IS HOW OUR NIGHT SKY WOULD LOOK — Source

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The human race has been transmitting radio signals into space for about 110 years now creating a radio bubble around Earth 220 light years across. So why haven 't aliens picked up our radio signals and contacted us yet? Right there! Because, in the scale of this photograph, our 220 light year radio bubble we 've spent a century making is only the size of a single pixel! CRACKED.COM — Source

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THE JUMBOTRON AT DALLAS COWBOYS STADIUM AT&T STADIUM 160 Et 72 ft 1/0 BEING WASHED BY MEN IN BASKET CRANES. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Amphicoelias Fragillimus, possibly the largest dinosaur that ever existed, giving a modern elephant a piggy back ride. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED.COM HERCULES the liger TOUR Hercules is the world's LIGERLIGER U.S. BUS largest cat. Не weighs over 900 lbs, he's 6 feet tall when sitting, and 11 feet tall when standing on his hind legs. ABD 66 Here he is next to his average-sized handler and double decker bus. — Source

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CRACKED.COM Sequoia seeds Grown sequoia — Source

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Ants

THERE ARE ABOUT 1,300,000 ANTS PER PERSON There are an estimated ants in the world. 000'000'000'000'O00'OL CRACKED.COM — Source

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Blue Whale

A BLUE WHALE'S HEART IS ABOUT AS TALL AS A SHORT PERSON A blue whale's heart is about 4 feet wide by 5 feet long by 5 feet tall. It weighs about 400 pounds. CRACKED.COM — Source

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RUSSIA IS ABOUT THE SAME SIZE AS PLUTO Pluto's surface area is 17,646,012 km2, compared to Russia's 17,098,246 km². CRACKED.COM — Source

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1.3 MILLION EARTHS COULD FIT INSIDE THE SUN That's only if we squashed all the Earths in, but if they retained their sphere shape, if only about 960,000 would fit. CRACKED.COM — Source

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HUMAN EGG CELLS ARE ABOUT AS WIDE AS A STRAND OF HAIR IS THICK The egg cell is the largest of the cells in the body. It can be seen without a microscope. CRACKED.COM — Source

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IF FLEAS WERE AS TALL AS PEOPLE, THEY COULD JUMP OVER 15 CARS And that's bumper to bumper. Fleas can jump 38 times their body length. CRACKED.COM — Source

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100,000,000 ATOMS IN A ROW WOULD BE ABOUT THE WIDTH OF YOUR FINGERNAIL An average atom is about 10-10 meters. For comparision, if the same number of standard pencils were laid end-to-end, they would wrap around the Earth's equator more than 47 times. CRACKED.COM — Source

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GIANT SQUIDS' EYES ARE BIGGER THAN BASKETBALLS Scientists believe they may have giant eyes to help them detect their giant predator, the sperm whale, while in the darkness of underwater. CRACKED.COM — Source

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YOU COULD FIT ALL THE PLANETS BETWEEN THE EARTH AND THE MOON When the moon is farthest from Earth, the distance between Earth and the Moon is so large that all the other planets in the solar system could fit in between them comfortably. CRACKED.COM — Source

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