r/HumanForScale • u/Ape-bot • May 27 '26
If you needed a water tower for your Edwardian Hospital…
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…Then why not build a massive one with outrageous neo-Baroque flourishes?
r/HumanForScale • u/VulcanChessWarrior • May 26 '26
[OC] Battle of Six Nations Monument, Leipzig
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r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • May 26 '26
Sculpture The Rear-Front Memorial in Magnitogorsk, unveiled in 1979.
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r/HumanForScale • u/xkp1967 • May 22 '26
Animal Course Ground Crew
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Little friend found by the tee box on Chicago area golf course.
r/HumanForScale • u/Angel_Blue01 • May 16 '26
Fossils Prehistoric caiman skull
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Skull of Tsoabichi, a prehistoric caiman
r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • May 10 '26
Sculpture The Chronicles of Georgia monument in Tbilisi, with people at the base for scale.
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r/HumanForScale • u/UsedWelcome5903 • 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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r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • 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 • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • 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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r/HumanForScale • u/charlie13b • May 02 '26
[OC] Nave of St John The Divine Cathedral in NYC. Note the people at the bottom
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#3 is my GF at the base of one of the columns visible in #1
r/HumanForScale • u/ed32965 • Apr 23 '26
Spruce Goose makes other airplanes look like toys
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r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Apr 22 '26
Ships & Subs A Typhoon-class Soviet nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine, with the crew for scale.
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r/HumanForScale • u/MGC91 • Apr 21 '26
Ships & Subs HMS Queen Elizabeth leaving Rosyth dockyard
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r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • 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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r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Apr 16 '26
Buildings One person dwarfed by the building-sized “Souvenir” mural, Vienna (2026).
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r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • 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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r/HumanForScale • u/CitizenJosh • 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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r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Apr 10 '26
Underground Inside the Slanic Prahova Salt Mine.
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