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32 Times Size Mattered Just a Little Bit

It’s hard to wrap our little minds around these gigantic proportions

32 Times Size Mattered Just a Little Bit

October 30, 2023

Size can be measured, but labeling something “big” or “small” is all about perspective. Sure, you can think of yourself as an insignificant little speck in the universe. But on the other hand, you yourself are a gigantic, sentient universe to the trillions of atoms within your physical form. Our Napoleon complex — and these not-so-tasty mushrooms we found — have us thinking the latter.

Check out these size comparisons and see if they freaked you out as badly as they did us…

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CRACKED.COM Sequoia seeds Grown sequoia — Source

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CRACKED.COM HERCULES the liger TOUR Hercules is the world's LIGERLIGER 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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Amphicoelias Fragillimus, possibly the largest dinosaur that ever existed, giving a modern elephant a piggy back ride. GRACKED.COM — Source

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THE JUMBOTRON AT DALLAS COWBOYS STADIUM AT&T STADIUM 160 ft 72 ft 1/0 BEING WASHED BY MEN IN BASKET CRANES. CRACKED.COM — 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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CRACKED.COM IF THE MOON WAS AS BIG AS JUPITER, THIS IS HOW OUR NIGHT SKY WOULD LOOK — 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... 13 12 4 ...it would be smoother than the billiard ball. GRACKED.COM — Source

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Neutron Stars

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 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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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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CRACKED.COM This is the actual size of a wind turbine blade. — 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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The Wright Brothers' celebrated first flight was only 120 feet in length, shorter than the 196 ft wingspan of a Boeing 747. 196 ft 120 ft CRACKED COM — Source

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GRAGKED.COM DEAD 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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CRACKED.COM THIS IS WHAT ONE BILLION DILLARY DOLLARS WOULD LOOK LIKE One Billion Dollars Stack height One Million Dollars 19 feet 5 .8 meters ФО STACKED ON A A I TENNIS COURT, COMPARED TO A STACK OF ONE MILLION. — Source

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Just beyond these pillars... ...are the front doors to the U.S. National Archives. CRACKED.COM The bronze doors are over 37 feet tall. — Source

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Female Blanket Octopuses can grow up to 2 meters or 6 feet 6 inches. Their male counterpart, however, can grow only up to an inch. It's the largest known size difference between genders in the animal kingdom, with the female being 10,000 to 40,000 times heavier than the male. CRACKED.COM — Source

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This is Big Lonely Doug, Canada's second largest tree, seen from a distance. And this is Big Lonely Doug with a person climbing it. CRACKED COM — Source

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The Mona Lisa is tiny. At 31.3 inches by 21 inches, it's smaller than the average TV set. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CRACKED COM The Great Pyramid of Giza compared to an adult human. — Source

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Australia

AUSTRALIA IS WIDER THAN THE MOON The moon has more square area, but Australia is almost 4000 kilometres, compared to the Moon's 3,475 km. 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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THE QUETZALCOATLUS WAS AS TALL AS A GIRAFFE Quetzalcoatlus northropi Quetzalcoatlus sp. The Quetzalcoatlus is the largest known flying animal. It was a pterosaur with a wingspan of around 33 feet. 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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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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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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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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Actor John Rhys- CRACKED.COM 6'60 Davies stands at 6'1 6'60 tall. 6'00 6'00 His body bouble, Brett Beattie, stands 5'60 5'60 at 4'9 1/2 tall. 5'00 5'00 4'60 4'00 3'60 3'60 2'00 2'00 Helmet height taken into consideration for this graphic — Source

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The world's longest cat is 48.5 from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail bone. The world's smallest cat is 7.5 long (the size of a full-grown guinea pig). CRACKED.COM http://www.cvm.missouri.edu/news/mrpeebles.htm — Source

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This is an unretouched photograph N of Andre the IAN BEER Giant holding a standard مصر IN size beer can. CRACKED.COM — Source

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