The real size of things ~ A Thread🧵 1. If Saturn were as close to Earth as the Moon, this is what it would look like:

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A visual thread comparing the actual sizes of famous landmarks, natural wonders, and celestial objects using human figures and other reference points for scale. Includes comparisons of Saturn if it were closer to Earth, the Statue of Unity, pyramids, giant statues, extinct animals, and demonstrations of how maps distort true continental sizes.

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The real size of things ~ A Thread🧵 1. If Saturn were as close to Earth as the Moon, this is what it would look like:
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2. A husky next to a wolf 🐺
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3. Titanic compared to a modern cruise ship 🚢
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4. The Statue of Unity, India 🇮🇳 is the world's tallest statue, with a height of 240 m (790 ft) including the base.
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5. The true size of the pyramids
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6. Jadayupara, the largest Bird sculpture in the world It measures 200 feet (61 m) long, 150 feet (46 m) wide, 70 feet (21 m) in height and occupies 15,000 square feet of floor area.
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7. Dragon Bamboo, is a species of giant bamboo that is Indigenous to Southeast Asia.
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8. The little dot in front of the Sun is actually Mercury
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9. The giant flag of the french ship Le Genereux, which was captured by Admiral Nelson in 1800. It is believed to be one of the earliest Tricolours in existence. Humans for scale.
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10. The actual size of Africa
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11. Crew members standing inside the cargo tank of an LNG tanker.
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12. The real size of Michelangelo’s David
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13. This GIF by Jakub Nowosad demonstrates how the Mercator projection distorts the true sizes of continents and countries on a world map.
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14. Angkor Wat, Cambodia 🇰🇭 The largest religious monument in the world, on a site measuring 162.6 hectares. 900 years ago, it took 4000+ Elephants and one person from every single family in the kingdom, 37 years to build this Temple.
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15. The size of Starship
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16. The short-faced bear is an extinct ancient bear that lived in North America 11,000 years ago.
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17. The actual size of a sea turtle 🐢
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18. Sequoia trees Sequoia National Park in California is home to five of the world's ten largest trees.
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19. Europe's largest salt mine Located in Slănic, Romania, the Slănic Salt Mine features 14 underground chambers, each with a 10-meter ceiling opening, 32-meter width, and 54-meter height, reaching a total depth of 208 meters.
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20. Marble floor of the Florence Cathedral
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21. The largest known primate The Gigantopithecus, which stood 10 feet tall and weighed over 500 pounds, lived from approximately 2 million to 300,000–200,000 years ago.
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22. Trees at Botanical Park of Rio de Janeiro Brazil 🇧🇷
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23. The Kailasa Temple in Ellora, India🇮🇳 The largest Monolithic Structure of the World. 164 feet long, 108 feet wide & 100 feet high, Entire Temple from top to bottom was cut out from solid basalt bedrock!
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24. Life size model of a Quetzalcoatlus northropi. The largest known flying animal to ever exist.
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25. The World’s Tallest Murti of a Hindu God. 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝘂𝗱𝗮 𝗪𝗶𝘀𝗻𝘂 𝗞𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗮 at GWK Cultural Park, Bali, Indonesia 🇮🇩
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26. The true size of black holes. 📽: morn1415/Youtube
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27. The size of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, as seen from his outstretched arms
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28. Celestial bodies scaled for size, rotation speed, and tilt by Dr James O'Donoghue x.com/physicsJ/statu…
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29. Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, the longest continuous bridge over water in the world. Its length can be used to visually demonstrate the curvature of the Earth.
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30. Blue Whale heart It's the largest heart on Earth and it pumps oxygen every 10 seconds. It's 5 feet long, 4 feet wide, and 5 feet tall and it weighs about 400 pounds.