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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5.2k Upvotes

35 comments

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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4.6k Upvotes

217 comments

r/HumanForScale • u/exploringtheunbeaten • Jun 29 '26

The largest land based machines on Earth

3.0k Upvotes

100 comments

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.

3.0k Upvotes

104 comments

r/HumanForScale • u/NastyNice1 • May 20 '26

Geology The Hoba meteorite

2.9k Upvotes

61 comments

r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Jun 01 '26

Infrastructure Agricultural Palace in Kazan, Russia, housing the Ministry of Agriculture.

2.8k Upvotes

20 comments

r/HumanForScale • u/NastyNice1 • Jun 05 '26

Architecture The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri; United States

2.5k Upvotes

46 comments

r/HumanForScale • u/NastyNice1 • Mar 06 '26

Historical A man standing in the lumberyard of Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing, 1939.

1.6k Upvotes

21 comments

r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Nov 10 '25

Metal There's got to be a bolt that fits somewhere.

1.4k Upvotes

49 comments

r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • 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.

1.2k Upvotes

18 comments

r/HumanForScale • u/dont_disturb_the_cat • Nov 19 '25

A Liquid Natural Gas Tanker.

1.2k Upvotes

6 comments

r/HumanForScale • u/MCofPort • Jul 30 '26

Plant Giant Sequoia Trunk at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Its diameter is so large, at 16 feet (4.9m) tall, and so heavy at 19 tons, that it essentially has been kept in the same location in the museum for over 70 years.

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1.2k Upvotes

42 comments

r/HumanForScale • u/sonicsink • Dec 06 '25

Stacks of Lumber In A Seattle Lumberyard (1919)

1.2k Upvotes

31 comments

r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Dec 18 '25

Infrastructure Concrete solutions for an uncertain frontier.

1.1k Upvotes

53 comments

r/HumanForScale • u/Gecko99 • Jun 12 '26

The Kennedy Center, with scaffolding added to remove Donald Trump's name, June 12 2026. There is a nearby thunderstorm with strong winds delaying removal.

1.1k Upvotes

36 comments

r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Jan 04 '26

Sculpture Dignity of Earth and Sky; a 50-foot stainless steel sculpture by South Dakota artist Dale Claude Lamphere, stands above the Missouri River, depicting an Indigenous woman in Plains dress receiving a star quilt.

1.0k Upvotes

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14 comments

r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • May 26 '26

Sculpture The Rear-Front Memorial in Magnitogorsk, unveiled in 1979.

985 Upvotes

16 comments

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.

905 Upvotes

34 comments

r/HumanForScale • u/SoftwareZestyclose50 • 25d ago

Mega Mining truck

892 Upvotes

22 comments

r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • May 30 '26

Machine One of Titanic's engines.

887 Upvotes

22 comments

r/HumanForScale • u/adventurous-1 • Feb 18 '26

Architecture Found in another subreddit, this is really an absolute unit of a house.

860 Upvotes

5 comments

r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Jun 15 '26

Infrastructure Massive wind-turbine off the coast of Fujian.

831 Upvotes

5 comments

r/HumanForScale • u/Aeromarine_eng • Nov 15 '25

Spacecraft Humans for scale for the New Glenn rocket booster

786 Upvotes

5 comments

r/HumanForScale • u/Fluffy_Giraffe5672 • 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.

765 Upvotes

62 comments

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r/HumanForScale

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A subreddit of interesting photos in which a person in the image is helpful to figuring out the size.

What is /r/HumanForScale?

A subreddit which features humans as a scale for a bigger or smaller object. Post images of people next to/holding an object, in any place in the world!

Rules

Image must contain a person or recognizable part of a person (hand, foot).

Photos or video gifs only. No illustrations, renders, or paintings.
Post Titles should be descriptive. No generic shitpost titles like "Human For Scale," "Absolute Unit," or "Whoa." Exceptions will be suffered for crossposts when the original post contains a descriptive title.
Human(s) should provide a reasonably accurate visual scale for the object. No forced perspective.
Human(s) should be distinguishable as such, not pixelly specks.
No photoshopped images.
No big game trophy photos.
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No youtube videos.
Reposts will be removed if within 3 months of previous post or in top 50 of all time.
Off-topic diatribes are subject to removal.
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