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A Quick Perspective - photos that put things into perspective

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The largest tanker Seawise Giant measures 458 meters, in the photo it is in New York's Central Park.

Humans are visual creatures. Numbers tell us a lot, but they don't create the whole picture. We know the Titanic was huge, but how huge? If we express it in numbers, this means 269 meters. This brings us closer to the idea of his greatness. But if we say that it measures three football fields in length, we can imagine it all together even more easily. And in just such a plastic way, Kevin Wisbith helps us, placing the icons of our time in the space and helping us put them into perspective.

Humans are considered visual creatures and it has been proven that we imagine things much more easily when we see them in a picture or in context. Kevin Wisbyth helps us visualize many iconic images that we otherwise know how big they are, but we can't really imagine it.

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For plastic performance is things like a ship Titanic, the B-2 bomber and the largest species of scorpion in the world, placed in a familiar environment. Comparison it will surprise you, because you had a completely wrong idea about the size of many things.

A Quick Perspective – photos that put things into perspective:

The Khalifa Tower (Bujr Khalifa) is the tallest building in the world, measuring 828 meters in height. If you were standing in New York instead of Dubai, the One World Trade Center skyscraper that replaced the Twin Towers would look like a dwarf.
The Titanic was the largest ship in the world at the time (it measured 269 meters in length). Since 1912, ships have grown considerably. The nuclear aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, for example, measures as much as 333 meters
The B-2 stealth bomber has a wingspan of 52.12 meters, which is more than the width of an American football field.
The largest radio telescope for the search for extraterrestrials is located in the Chinese province of Guizhou and measures as much as 500 meters.
Many insects were once (due to more oxygen in the air) much larger than they are today. What you see is Pulmonoscorpius kirktonensis, one of the largest scorpion species that has grown to the size of domestic cats. Good thing it's an extinct species.
If ever built, NASA's M-1 rocket engine from the 1950s would be the largest engine in the world.
The Mirny diamond mine and the second largest building in the United States, the Willis Tower skyscraper in Chicago.
Although the Death Star from Star Wars does not exist, it is known to be 1/25 the size of the Moon. Its diameter is approx. 160 kilometers.
The asteroid Dionysus, which orbits the Earth, is as much as 1.5 kilometers wide. This is how it looks over the Golden Gate Bridge, located in the San Francisco Bay (USA).
The largest tanker Seawise Giant measures 458 meters, in the photo it is in New York's Central Park.

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