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50 Photos Of Gigantic Things That Are Big “Nopes” For Anyone With Megalophobia (New Pics)
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Fear isn’t rare—we all have things we’re scared of, whether that’s heights (hey!), spiders, open water, snakes, or, well, anything and everything. A phobia you may have heard a little less about is megalophobia, the fear of large objects like skyscrapers, yachts, planes, big animals, etc. Though someone’s fears are no joke, big things tend to be very impressive, whether we’re talking about architecture, engineering, or nature.
That’s where the ‘Megalophobia’ online community comes in. Its members share incredible photos of gigantic objects that are definitely imposing. We’ve collected some of their newest images to share with you. Scroll down to check them out. It’s a reminder about how small human beings actually are in some contexts.
Bored Panda reached out to u/Hoogs, the head moderator who runs the 'Megalophobia' group, and he was kind enough to answer our questions about the community and the phobia. You'll find our interview with him below.
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Unreal Landscape: Dolomites, Italy
April Pickett 12 months ago
I will admire it from the bottom of that slope.
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The subreddit has been around for over a decade now, and we were curious why it continues to be so popular to this very day. "I feel that the sub has continued to grow over the years because it attracts both people who have an interest in unique and awe-inspiring images, and people with megalophobia," moderator u/Hoogs explained to Bored Panda.
"The latter may seem counterintuitive, since you would expect people to avoid things they fear, but think of it like a horror movie. You watch it for the thrill. It provides a unique sensation that's a break from the mundanities of everyday life while allowing you to explore your fears in a safe environment," he said.
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#2
Sorvagsvatn, The Lake That Hangs Over The Ocean. Faroe Islands
Forrest Hobbs 12 months ago (edited)
Mind-boggling. Apparently, the locals just call it Vatnið - "the lake". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8rv%C3%A1gsvatn
Norm Gilmore 12 months ago
There's an optical illusion effect here. This from the waterfall into the sea on the left of the picture. KfffJTW-67...4bda66.jpg 
WindySwede 12 months ago
https://www.google.se/maps/@62.0234375,-7.2455057,3a,90y,350.78h,74.34t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipOiXc2ykPOgKgfTiRvcCAsjTiHdrl3-m1eIxg3P!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOiXc2ykPOgKgfTiRvcCAsjTiHdrl3-m1eIxg3P%3Dw900-h600-k-no-pi15.659568210639279-ya350.77689518164294-ro0-fo100!7i8192!8i4096?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTIxMS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
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Rebecca Taylor 11 months ago
Wow I would like to have a fountain in my front yard made to look like a miniture of this cool sceene
#3
Thunderstorm Over Panama. Picture Taken At 37,000 Feet By Santiago Borja
Lord of the wings 11 months ago
what an amazing shot!!!! looks like something out of a sci Fi movie
"I also suspect that even people who don't classify themselves as having megalophobia still get that little touch of vertigo when seeing some of the sub's content."
We were also interested in getting the moderator's thoughts on how megalophobia might impact a person's day-to-day life. "Megalophobia might impact a person's daily life negatively if they are regularly exposed to things like large buildings, structures, statues, vehicles, and even geographical features like mountains and canyons," u/Hoogs told us.
#4
Perseid's Meteor Shower Over Stonehenge
Chris the Bobcat 12 months ago
In ancient times... 'undreds of years before the dawn of 'istory... lived a strange race of people... the Druids...
Dawn Soehren 11 months ago
Love watching the Perseid's. Some of my most vivid memories is of watching these with my Mom in the back yard. This is a fantastic photo.
#5
Just Imagine Going Hiking In The Woods And Coming Across This Beast
Leanne Hailes 12 months ago
No need for a banana here! 🦌 Mr Moose makes the trees look like alders 🌱
Victorious Foxx 11 months ago
That's Miss Moose... missing an important part to be a Mr.
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Warren Peece 12 months ago (edited)
I saw moose many times. There used to be an Air Force Base in northern Maine (Loring), and I was stationed there for a couple years. I was working on the flightline the night when a military police officer in an SUV-type car was honking the horn at a massive male moose trying to get the moose to leave the runway. The moose got mad, attacked the car, and flipped the car on its side.
Ryan Mercer 12 months ago (edited)
Was driving though Wyoming on our way to see Mt. Rushmore when we noticed a moose down off the road near a creek. Then we noticed the woman it was chasing down. The moose had a small calf and the woman's dog wouldn't stop barking at it. So she picks up the dog and tried to get away when the moose kicks her in the back with it front leg, sending her face down into the dirt. She got back up with her dog and tried to get away again, but the moose followed and kicked her to the dirt again, with the dog still barking. We stopped and started shouting at her to come up to the highway. She did, and he moose followed. We were driving a little Aspire with our camping gear taking up everything but the front two seats. So all 3 of us, plus the dog, crammed in with one of us sitting on the stick shift, and managed to close the door. But uh oh, the passenger side window was rolled down and none of us could quite reach it because we are all sitting on each other.
Ryan Mercer 12 months ago
One of us was barely able to reach the handle and was desperately trying to roll the window up while the moose was closing in. The dog would not stop barking. We managed to get the window close just as the moose reached us, and I swear to god we all thought it was going to smash the window. Fortunately, it decided it couldn't reach the dog so walked on with it's calf. But don't ever mess with mama moose.
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Dragons Exist 12 months ago
And people wonder where stories about wendigos and stuff came from
JD Key 12 months ago
May be hard for some to believe, but there are actually people who will get close to get a selfie.
Jess Bertram 12 months ago (edited)
💯. We had one in our campsite last fall. We have a tree tent, called a Tentsile, that is strung between trees 4 ft off the ground. Effing moose stepped OVER the straps.OVER.
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SkippityBoppityBoo 12 months ago
Try coming across one as a 5yr old and being stood there looking up at a giant Meece!!! 😄 I was always taught to stand still if you come across a bear, moose or other wildlife. Breathe normally, don't run and usually they will amble off if you don't panic or start screaming as that's the worst thing you can do. You're going to frighten them and that's when they may possibly charge or attack... Gosh I had a weird childhood with the various lessons I learned!!! 😄
Celtic Pirate Queen 11 months ago
OMG. So my ex and I were "camping" with some friends. Yeah, we were in a van that got stuck in the snow up in the Cascade National Forest (WA State). I was the only girl & had to pee. So I walk down the road a ways (full moon, so it was gorgeous at about 1:00am) and find my perfect peeing bush. Doing my business when I hear this "chuffing" noise. I turned my head and came face to face with a bull moose easily this size. I couldn't see the end of his rack in my peripheral vision, he was so big. So, I said "Um, hello. Not here to bother you, just had to pee. WOW - You're a BIG fella, aren'tcha?" He just stared at me for a minute (that lasted an hour) and moseyed on down the road. I was terrified and thrilled at the same time. No one bellieved me until I made them walk down the road where they could see his tracks. One of the most awesome nature encounters I've ever had.
#6
Iceberg Passing By A House In Greenland
Forrest Hobbs 12 months ago
I'd love to see that in real life - while standing on solid, rocky ground.
Beryl Greenspon Levine 11 months ago
And it's even larger below the surface of the water. They are so massive!
"It might prevent them from doing certain things they'd like, having unique experiences, or even just living their life in a world with so many things that are larger than us," he said.
"Humans are small, and I think this phobia cuts right to the heart of that fact we all know to be true."
Around a tenth of people living in the United States have specific phobias. According to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), around 9.1% of American adults have had specific phobias in the past year, while around 12.5% of all adults in the U.S. will experience a specific phobia at some point in their lives.
Additionally, 48.1% of people with phobias had mild impairment, 30% had moderate impairment, and over a fifth (21.9%) had serious impairment. The number of people with phobias may be underreported because there is a certain stigma attached to mental disorders.
#7
White-Bellied Sea Eagle
Alexia 12 months ago (edited)
It's majestic, but I'll admire it from a safe distance. Just look at that beak!
Lord of the wings 11 months ago
if you think that that is big, check out the harpy eagle. can grow 4 ft and is capable of crushing a monkeys skull in with its claws. truly powerful birds
#8
The Sky Looks Way Too Much Like A Gigantic Wave
Kristi S. 12 months ago
Kelvin-Helmholz clouds or fluctus clouds. Beautiful but tiny bit scary..
#9
Breathtaking Shot Of Faroe Islands In The Kingdom Of Denmark
Marie Clear 12 months ago
Need your roof mown? Call Glen's Goats, for sale or rent.
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Kabuki Kitsune 12 months ago
Imagine having to climb up on your steeply sloped roof and mow it.
Lord of the wings 11 months ago
the clouds around that cliff side and the green of the houses roof!! just amazing. truly breathtaking.
As per Verywell Mind, phobias are overwhelming, irrational, and persistent fears that lead people to avoid certain situations or objects.
These fears can have a huge impact on your life depending on the context. For example, if you’re scared of flying but have to go on a ton of trips abroad for work, you’ll have a very hard time logistically unless you put in the time and effort to get over your fear, whether by yourself or with the help of a therapist. Similarly, being scared of open or deep bodies of water is going to be awful for you if you live near lakes or the sea.
Phobias are mental disorders that are classified as anxiety disorders. Generally, people with specific fears avoid the things that scare them, but they might feel anxious even thinking about the things they’re afraid of.
If you’re scared of public speaking, for example, you might start panicking just imagining having to get up in front of a large crowd for an important speech. Or you might cringe at the mere thought of holding a spider if arachnids scare you.
#10
Saltwater Crocodile Next To A Human
Daniel Atkins 12 months ago
Is the human in a plastic container to keep them fresh for the Crocodiles Snacking pleasure? ;)
Stephen Lyford 12 months ago
Although salties get huge, this is also a trick of perspective, the croc is closer to the camera than the diver.
Upstaged75 12 months ago
I've seen videos of them next to boats and it's mind blowing how big they actually are!
Miss Teri 12 months ago
I'd love to do this! It looks absolutely amazing and a wee bit terrifying!
XenoMurph 12 months ago
It's not wee, it's massively terrifying. The only wee would be flowing out of me in sheer fright
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Kelpies
Raymond Core 12 months ago
The Kelpies are a pair of monumental steel horse-heads between the Scottish towns of Falkirk and Grangemouth. They stand next to the M9 motorway and form the eastern gateway of the Forth and Clyde Canal, which meets the River Carron here. Each head is 30 metres (98 ft) high.
Forrest Hobbs 12 months ago
Sure you will, I'm sure they'll tell you they'll look after you and bring you back home safe. Of course they will... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelpie#Description_and_common_attributes
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nottheactualphoto 12 months ago (edited)
This is a statue. It's been on BP before, but I can't be bothered to look it up.
CanadianDimes 12 months ago
I’m not usually bothered by big things but for some reason, the Kelpies make me really uncomfortable. I could not for the life of me say why.
#12
Banff National Parkway Alberta, Canada
Huddo's sister 12 months ago
I've been there (technically, I was on a bus that dropped someone off at a chalet there in the middle of the night)
Forrest Hobbs 12 months ago (edited)
Oh wow, man! We have impressive views here in little old England (Wales too, I live next door). Only; none of them hit that level. In our defence, while our highest mountains are frankly rather short unless set against the minor hills Denmark sports, they have plenty of life all the way to the top.
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Ace 12 months ago
That's actually called the Icefields Parkway, a spectacular route from Banff/Lake Louise up to Jasper, Alberta. Driven it in winter, -30C. There's about 200km with no town, no service stations, no nothing. You do Not want to break down in those conditions.
A variety of factors can influence whether someone will develop a phobia and what it will be, ranging from your genetics and culture to your life experiences. Your home environment has a massive impact, too.
If your relatives were all terrified of dogs, it’s likely they passed on a similar fear to you, even if you may have never personally had a negative interaction with these animals.
Or a family member might pass on their general sense of anxiety to you, making you feel scared of leaving home. Specific phobias often appear when you’re around 7 years old.
#13
1980 Eruption Of Mount St. Helens
Jess Bertram 12 months ago
Nah, he made it. I have looked this one up many times. The one who didn't was another man, a photojournalist, who took his final shots and lay over his camera to protect the film.
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LonelyLittleLeafSheep 12 months ago
That's the photographer's car and bike. He made his escape on the motorcycle, but only just.
Diane Tucker 12 months ago
I remember hearing this clearly when it happened -- and I lived in Vancouver CANADA, 532 km away. It sounded like a basketball hitting my bedroom window.
Brian Droste 12 months ago
Off topic but I never seen a motorbike being pulled like that before.
Linda Johnson 11 months ago
ya' know, back in those "good ol' days" we didn't worry so much, we just assumed it'd work, and mostly it did....a kind of hillbilly hack.....
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whoever took that picture better start running! the ash and dust is possibly going to reach them soon.
Dawn Soehren 11 months ago
I lived in Spokane during this. Was so sad that the guy that lived there didn't listen and evacuate. And the photo journalist that lost his life but took those amazing photos and saved them. The night that fell when the ashes swept over us was surreal. We lived with those ashes for decades.
Chris the Bobcat 12 months ago
Taken only moments before the Pinto exploded after being rear-ended by the motorcycle.
#14
Harpy Eagle, One Of The Biggest Eagles In The World
ShortAttnSpanTheatre 12 months ago
Seriously, why does he have manacles on his ankles? What's the reason for keeping this animal in captivity?
Ace 12 months ago (edited)
Birds of prey have been kept by humans for millennia. It's not really so much different from riding a horse, using a dog for hunting, even just house pets. The anklets are made of leather and are not painful or irritating. The birds are regularly allowed to fly freely and choose to return to their human handlers, so it's not really captivity as such.
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Lord of the wings 11 months ago
and whats even crazier is that they are very powerful. they can crush a monkeys skull in with their talons, and they can tear apart pretty much anything with that beak. A distant cousin of mine, but he likes to brag about his size. "I'm so cool! I can pick up small dogs!" when I am just kept in a house with an owner. I wish I could be like Gerald.
#15
France Has The Best Villages
Harry Gondalf 12 months ago
Wow! is that a Citroen CV2? Haven't seen one of those since French 'art' movies in the 60's.
Pernille 12 months ago
No, that looks like a Dyane, the big brother of the 2CV. They are still around in Europe, I drive a 2CV .
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Djay Zarma 12 months ago
And this castle is not this "Big". Just a standard medieval french castle !!
Forrest Hobbs 12 months ago
The ones that weren't big are often no longer there. England was taken over by Normans building castles pretty much everywhere they could force the locals to build an earth mound - there's just the mounds left of most of them, as I understand it. Roman legions built fortresses as a matter of routine. Some castles never got finished, due to the huge cost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaumaris
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I love that shot! the houses with the castle in the background! just breathtaking!
Linda Johnson 11 months ago (edited)
My folks were born and raised in a small village in Italy, they were so "hell bent" to get to America for that American Dream....(1950) they went straight to So. California.....we were lucky enough to get at least 3-4 trips back to the grandparents there....but I sure wish I'd grown up in Europe...so much history and beauty ......this picture is GORGEOUS !!!
sandrabmorison 12 months ago
Lincoln in UK has a street similar ......its called Steep Street....
Someone who is in a situation or around an object that irrationally scares them might feel dizzy, nauseous, breathless, and may have a distorted sense of reality. In some cases, they might have a full-on panic attack.
Specific phobias are grouped into five main categories: animal, natural environment, situational, blood-injected-injury, and ‘other’ types.
#16
Forest In Nagano Prefecture, Japan
Chuck 9 months ago
I think the gorges are in Miyazaki Prefecture, Kyushu. 🙂
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Miranda Prince 11 months ago
Been there, and even better, you can sometimes see snow monkeys in the forest.
#17
Tallest Statue In Africa
Jrog 12 months ago (edited)
Built by order of president Abdoulaye Wade, on a hill that is part of the "Deux Mamelles" (the boobs). Not kidding. It was meant to inspire an age of pan-African union, prosperity and emancipation, kickstarting a new engineering industry in Senegal. In reality, it was shoddily built by North Korean workforce, at twice the original budget -a steep 27 million Euros- curb-stomping the economy of the country that already was in a difficult economic crisis. It made a lot of people angry because of the nudity (smart choice in a predominantly muslim and conservative country), and because at the same time a plan to bring electricity and freshwater to the very same area was scrapped because of lack of funding. The funding was in great part diverted from UN foreign aid. To make everything more idiotic, president Wade shortly before being ousted signed a bill recognizing his own efforts in designing the monument, so he awarded himself to perpetual royalties -35%- from touristic revenues.
Jrog 12 months ago
The genesis of the artwork is interesting. Wade claims he came up with the design alone, so he is due the royalties. But, it came out that a different artist made the first sketches, and the final design was made by a Romanian artist, that was contracted for a maquette and then ghosted. When he saw the finished artwork, he complained not much for the stolen idea, but because the execution by North Koreans was so bad to be caricatural, with oriental eyes and wrong proportions (this photo is flattering, look for other angles to see how bad it is).
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Lord of the wings 11 months ago
even though I don't have megalaphobia, this really scares me for some reason. That is just massive.
Dawn Soehren 11 months ago
OH WOW. This is amazing. We don't hear enough about what is going on in Africa. Fantastic statue.
#18
How Did They Build This 85-Meter-Deep Underground City 2,500 Years Ago?
Bret Sander 12 months ago
Slowly, deliberately, and with an amazing knowledge of air flow and ventilation.
XenoMurph 12 months ago
If you can move one kilo, you can move one tonne. If you can move a tonne, you can move a mountain. It just takes time and people.
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G A 12 months ago
So called 'primitive' people's were a lot cleverer than science gives them credit for. No Georgio, it wasn't aliens.
The Darkest Timeline 12 months ago
What? Where do you get that idea? It’s people who eschew science that think ancient peoples couldn’t possibly have done things like this.
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RedMarbles 12 months ago
It's near Derinkuyu in Nevşehir Province, Turkey.
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SkippityBoppityBoo 12 months ago
Anyone else start singing - 🎶 They built this city, built this city on rock and roooo-oll!🎶?
Some of the most common phobias, according to NIMH, include the fear of closed-in places, heights, escalators, tunnels, highway driving, water, flying, dogs, animals, insects, thunder, public transportation, injuries involving blood, and dental and medical procedures. If you’re reading this, it’s likely that you or a loved one may be at least partly scared of one or more of these things.
#19
Baobab Trees
Forrest Hobbs 12 months ago
Not sure why these are on a "megalophobia" list - surely they're just the right size, and gorgeous?
Ray Davis 12 months ago
There are some whose trunk would push that person right out of the picture because they are so wide!
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Baali Venomax 12 months ago
I wonder if this natural tree gave James Cameron his ideas for the forests in Avatar, and Hometree?
Uncle Schmickle 12 months ago
Magnificent. I've seen some in Zimbabwe, but these look like the ones in Madagascar .
Lord of the wings 11 months ago
they are so cool I really want to viSIT OH MY GOSH WHY ARE THE LETTERS BIG PLEASE HELP
#20
Hallgrímskirkja Church In Iceland
Forrest McCanless 12 months ago
It's also poorly designed/engineered - lots of cracking on the inside on the large, blank expanses of wall
Lord of the wings 11 months ago
looks like a evil villians lair in a Lord of the rings movie or something
Linda Robinett 11 months ago
Next time look at Asgard in a Marvel movie and see where they got the idea for the design from. I have been there. Looks lovely in the summer
#21
A Lighthouse In Iceland
Forrest Hobbs 12 months ago
Þrídrangaviti Lighthouse (Thrídrangaviti without the Icelandic alphabet). https://icelandmag.is/article/watch-incredible-video-stunning-thridrangar-lighthouse-south-iceland
Forrest Hobbs 12 months ago
The lighthouse seems to have barest minimum accomodation for one person. Perhaps it's possible to catch adequate fresh water during part of the year, but probably not. It takes a very special person to want to live there.
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In 1938 and 1939 by hiring "experienced mountaineers to scale the sea stack. The expert climbers were local Westman Islanders who had long supplemented their diet by gathering seabird eggs from cliffs" "tools did not allow them to bite into the rock near the top, and there were no handholds, so using the same technique developed for gathering seabird eggs, they made a three-person "human stack" - one man on his knees, a second on top of him, and a third one climbing on the second one - for the final pitch." The boss said "I cannot even tell you how I was feeling whilst witnessing this incredibly dangerous procedure" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thridrangaviti_Lighthouse#Construction
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Dudley2348 12 months ago
This picture got my Instagram account disabled, the high and mighty "third-party fact-checkers" thought it was false information.
Beating your fears probably won’t happen overnight. It can take weeks, months, or even years of dedicated and focused effort to reframe how you see the world.
One approach to reducing the severity of your fears is using self-exposure to gradually desensitize yourself. When you spend time around an object or situation that makes you uncomfortable, you adapt and get used to it. Eventually, you realize that you’re not in any danger.
#22
Tokyo Flood Tunnels
keyboardtek 12 months ago
Yes. In America we ignore problems until they happen and then blame poor people.
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Mike L 12 months ago
Uh...don't understand. I've seen this before. Is this where the water goes? If so, why are people wandering around down there?
TotallyNOTAFox 12 months ago
Those are basically massive drain pipes in case of heavy rain storms and I think this was more a "take a look for a day" kinda thing
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Antonio Carlos Vianna Braga 11 months ago
No. This picture was doctored. They cheated on proportions. Look up
#23
If Saturn Were As Close To Earth As The Moon, This Is How It Would Look Like
Beak Hookage 12 months ago
And boy would it look cool, though it'd probably play merry hell with Earth's gravity.
Tango Wox 12 months ago
We would likely based on existing known orbits, end up in plane with the rings and therefor not see them.
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#24
Biggest Ship Elevator In The World, The Three Gorges Dam Shiplift
Jrog 12 months ago
Devised in the 1950s, approved in 1992, originally scheduled for completion in 1999, then pushed to 2009. Construction begun in only 2008 when German construction and metalworking companies were brought in to solve major design issues -shifting the design away from rope & pulley to rack & pinion- and it was ultimately opened in 2016. German engineers from EMA Indutec had to develop a new process of metal hardening that allowed hardening penetration five times the usual thickness, as well as novel quality control processes, to deal with the enormous stress the rack and pinions has to bear.
Lee Gilliland 12 months ago
One of the most challenging engineering attempts in the history of mankind
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In more serious cases, you may need long-term counseling, psychotherapy, or cognitive behavioral therapy.
Therapy can be incredibly helpful here, but you have to understand that counselors aren’t wizards; they can’t wave a magic wand and make all of your problems disappear. They’ll guide and support you, but you have to be prepared for a lot of (unpleasant, uncomfortable) emotional heavy lifting.
#25
The Size Of An Eagles Claws
Lord of the wings 11 months ago
as a bird, it is just Plain rude to go around and post feet pics. this is disrespectful to the bird community
Pamela Christie 11 months ago
This little piggie went to...Oops! No it didn't. You ate it! This little piggie stayed...Hey! You ate that one too! This little piggie had roast...Forget it. Whoever made you pig farm overseer musta been outta their mind.
Who am I, where am I 11 months ago
Grizzlies and this eagle are probably close to the same length
Jessica Senia 12 months ago
Is it really that hard to add an apostrophe? The size of an EAGLE'S claws, people. -_-
#26
The Pure Infinite
Bret Sander 12 months ago
For context, our galaxy is approximately 100,000 light year across. That means light, traveling at 186,000 miles per second, would take 100,000, years to travel from one edge of the galaxy to the other.
Forrest Hobbs 12 months ago
Cosmological distances are beyond mindboggling. And here we are, curious apes, using a language originally developed to tell our ancestors, slightly less curious apes, where to find the ripe fruit, wondering about this sort of stuff. Yeah there's a Pterry reference there. Rhianna's got his home-made sword, so all is well.
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Richard Graham 12 months ago
Interesting thought: It was not until the 1920s that scientists discovered that the Milky Way is not the only galaxy.
Sean Stimson 12 months ago
And the dots make up less than 1% of the galaxies that exist within the frame of the pictured. Most are too far away to see
Crissy Newbury 11 months ago
And to think we humans are so arrogant as to think some god made the Universe revolve around us.
Brandy McNamee 6 months ago
And to think God knows and calls every one of them by name... Psalm 147:4 ✨🌌✨
#27
Colosso Dell'appennino Is The Only Statue That Triggers My Megalophobia
Jrog 12 months ago
This is a fountain, and is so big that there are actual rooms inside, one of whose has a fountain itself. There is a small room used to play live music with an orchestra, and room heated with a a chimney in the head, with the nostrils used as smokestack. That room was used as a fishing spot by Francesco de Medici in the 1500s.
Raymond Core 12 months ago
If I were out hiking in nature and rounded the corner and saw that, I'd probably need a change of underwear. It looks like the stone came alive!
Jrog 12 months ago
It's within the park of a 16th century villa. These kind of artworks were very popular at the time as garden ornaments. Building artwork out of -sometimes fake- stone that looked ancient and natural was all the rage. Check the Monster Garden in Bomarzo, near Rome, if you are interested.
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The Apennine Colossus is a stone statue, approximately 11 meters high, in the estate of the Villa Demidoff in Vaglia, Tuscany, Italy. Wikipedia
The Megalophobia online community was created over a decade ago, in late April 2014. Over the years, it grew to around a million members in size. If you plan on joining the group and sharing photos of huge objects yourself, take some time to familiarize yourself with what’s already been posted by other members.
Long story short, reposts are frowned upon. You shouldn’t share photos that are in the top 25 of all time or images that have been posted within the past 90 days.
#28
Bagger 293, Once Held The Record For The World's Largest Land Vehicle
Lee Gilliland 12 months ago
Yup, tunnel let's make it look like a tinkertoy.
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ƒιѕн 12 months ago
Bucket wheel excavators are much larger than they appear in photos. b-676e2eb2a3e86.jpg 
Leanne Hailes 12 months ago
🤯 how long do you have yo go to secondary school to drive Bagger 293?
Lord of the wings 11 months ago
Bagger 293 is a true terraforming giant. It can move 240,000 cubic meters of earth per day, equivalent to the volume of around 96 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
Digger 12 months ago
bagger (German for digger) 293 it still is in operation and still is titled the largest movable land machinery https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_machines it has a couple of digger siblings which share similar dimensions. As long as Germany relies on coal these will remain in operation. by around 2045 time will tell, if they then will get dismantled forever or just knocked down and reassembled elsewhere on the planet. There are 5 people per shift operating it, a shift being 8h: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ5OF0q1IPU it relies external wired electricity to operate (15MWatt), which is why some people claim little issues comparing these kind of diggers to smaller vehicles under the term "largest vehicle" as other machinery might be smaller but have their own diesel tank and diesel engine on board.
Bored Trash Panda 12 months ago
There is a song about this thing that is absolutely hilarious. I suggest looking it up.
Brian Droste 12 months ago
Above comment has a link to the song but the song is in another language so you can't understand it. There is video that goes along with it.
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This Door (I’m 5’11” For Reference)
Bored Botanist 12 months ago
Sorry, you are not a recognized size reference. How many bananas tall are you?
April Pickett 12 months ago
Didn't they have, I don't know what you would call it, a "petitioner's door" that was more human size?
#30
Fanjingshan Temples In Tongren, China
Forrest Hobbs 12 months ago
Someone who wants solitiude, safety, and beauty. And also doesn't mind walking up and down lots of stairs to get essential supplies.
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Bryan Wright 11 months ago
Imagine reaching the top and realising you have forgotten to bring up the milk.
Pamela Christie 11 months ago
DING DONG: Pizza delivery! I didn't order a pizza. Oh! Must've been the other house. I'll just trot over the bridge... The bridge is closed for repairs. You'll have to go the long way.
Which of these photos impressed you the most, dear Pandas? Were there any that genuinely seemed foreboding? What are the biggest objects that you’ve personally seen with your own eyes?
What phobias, if any, do you have? What do you do to reduce the impact they have on your life? Let us know what you think in the comments!
#31
Image This Quetzalcoatlus Chasing You
April Pickett 12 months ago
Anything prehistoric like this with a big beak or horn on its face, how did they hold their heads up? This thing looks like it should fall over with that body and the size of its head.
S Bow 12 months ago (edited)
Large beaks or bills like this are usually either hollow or very porous, not solid, so it wouldn't be as heavy as it looks.
Load More Replies... SkippityBoppityBoo 12 months ago
I've got to stop reading Stephen King because this reminds me of one of the "animals" from one of the short stories called "The Mist"!!!
Pamela Christie 11 months ago
I think I went to high school with that guy. (The bird, not the human.)
#32
Valley Of The Lights Italy
Jrog 12 months ago
Val Trompia, close to Brescia, along the Mella river. It's an industrial area, mostly ironworking, foundries and small weapons manufacturing. The road you see there used to be known as "the Road of Steel". Not really a nice place to visit during the day.
Forrest Hobbs 12 months ago
Really lovely, only I bet it looked better before electric lighting and I *know* many Italians agree with me.
#33
Los Angeles Sky Cowboys Of Ironworkers Local 433
Parmeisan 12 months ago
Every one of them has a harness with support on the legs (where it should be). Mayhaps the ropes are in the back? I don't know if that would cause the weight to be in the wrong places. Maybe the whole thing is designed that way because lines in the front would interfere with the work.
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Barbara Burns 12 months ago
What in the holy hell are they doing? How did they get there? Are they fastened? Aaaaarrrgh!!!!!
#34
Hidden Beach, Marieta Islands, Mexico
Zephyr343 12 months ago
Probably not hidden for long. If someone can find a way to exploit it, they will
Tamara 12 months ago
I don't suppose those people took a boat to get there. How did the get there?
Damned_Cat 12 months ago
There are regular boat tours from Puerta Vallarta out to the island
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Kenzie Harden 11 months ago
Am I the only one who saw an eye-? Like- don't get me wrong its absolutely gorgeous, however, knowing it looks like an eye is kind of terrifying at the same time.
#35
I Have A Huge Fear Of Heights And The Grade Of The Streets In San Francisco Test That, But This View Was Worth Looking Over; Taken Just Before Sunrise
Thee8thsense 12 months ago
I drive these streets often, and when almost going airborne, I pretend I'm in the opening scene from the old TV show Streets of San Francisco. Weeee...
Kelly Scott 12 months ago
We have a street in my town that when you start down, your car's nose dips over and you can't see it. It's fun to drive it with my cousins from the Midwest. Equally fun is the road up to the ridge I live on. I think the grade is 37% or something very close. Until you're used to it, people say it's like driving up to the moon.
Beak Hookage 12 months ago
I remember seeing that very same slope when I visited San Fran! I immediately went "yeah, not climbing THAT bastard".
medcrest 12 months ago
When I lived there years ago, I would make sure to take public transportation to a location *above* where I wanted to go and then walk down hill.
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Lindy Mac 11 months ago (edited)
The way the photo was taken distorts the true grade of the street. If it were this steep you'd need climbing gear just to use the sidewalk.... Go back to the iron workers photo if you want to justifiably feel sick 😂🤣
Lilli Belisle 10 months ago
True that. But around UCSF you gotta park side ways and turn your wheels out. As a car passenger I had to climb out as if going through the top!!! Difficult.
Load More Replies... Lindy Mac 10 months ago
It's very tight. After I moved to the east bay I noticed the lanes were so much narrower in SF. It's a miracle that anyone has side view mirrors still in place. 🤣🤯
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Why Not Have A Seat On Royal Clock Tower In Mecca
Norm Gilmore 12 months ago
Looks like whole lot of nope to me. Even worse when you see that the person is sitting on the ledge above the clock face.. z-images-6...f35770.jpg 
Courtney Christelle 12 months ago
My fear has nothing to do with how big the clock is but rather how high above the ground it is.
#37
The Mother Of All Leaves
Huddo's sister 12 months ago
What are they? They are similar shape to rhubarb, but obviously not that.
Cee Cee 12 months ago
Gunnera manicata - originally from South America. Grows well here in the UK in damp conditions. AKA Chilean rhubarb.
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The Interior Of An Lng Cargo Ship
General Anaesthesia 12 months ago
Yes. BP's auto-censor also auto-corrects multiple capitals in one "word". Lack of editors on the Premium payroll does the rest.
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The Size Of A Tornado Compared To The Size Of Wind Turbines
Forrest Hobbs 12 months ago
Sometimes, the design engineers have to just hope a particular natural event doesn't hit.
Jrog 12 months ago (edited)
A windmill in good condition could definitely weather the storm. The blades are made to survive winds up to 250 kmh (IEC specs), that is enough for about 80% of the hurricanes hitting the US every year, and the nacelle brakes can withstand much more when in mechanical lock. In case the wind speed exceeds the safe limits, the blades typically bend and are to be replaced, a significant expense but still reasonable compared to the damages such a hurricane would do to an average power plant. The worst case scenario is for a nacelle with malfunctioning brakes, that could lead to a fire on the generator, but this is -statistically speaking- a really low risk happening.
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Cole Earnhart 12 months ago (edited)
And somewhere down there is the Tornado Wrangler going to shoot fireworks into the tornado!
Dre Mosley 12 months ago
I'll take our hurricanes any day. At least you have days in advance to prepare for them and/or get out of the area.
Linda Johnson 11 months ago
ahhh....what wind turbines??? those little toy windmills in the right corner???
#40
The Madonna Della Corona In Spiazzi, Italy
Forrest Hobbs 12 months ago
The climb up to it might be tricky, but again - megalophobia? Not sure - looks like a lovely homely place once you're there.
keyboardtek 12 months ago
It takes fifteen minutes for the hot water to get from the hot water tank in the basement to the upper bathroom!
Lord of the wings 11 months ago
I love it in there. you are not able to use your phone in their, but half the walls are made of the mountainside. such a cool place
Lisa Tetlow 11 months ago
Nope! I don't have a fear of heights, I have a fear of falling from great heights.
#41
Map Of The Universe. Our Galaxy Is Under The Red Dot
Lew k 12 months ago
Very under the rec dot. That's one of the super structures of galaxies. There are millions of galaxies in that picture and our galaxy is probably 1/100000 the size of the red dot on scale.
Linda Johnson 11 months ago
this "stuff" blows my mind and I just cannot wrap my head around the "Galaxies" thing.....just can't do the concept.....
#42
Lion's Head Rock In Japan
#43
Huge Wheel
Jrog 12 months ago (edited)
Nope, they are called "protection chains" or sometimes "RUD chains" (from the name of the major manufacturer, RUD Ketten GmbH). They are meant to protect the wheels on rocky ground and improve traction on mud. These tires deal with enormous forces, consider they typically are inflated at 7-8 bar pressure (twice a normal car tire) and are loaded with a few hundreds to a thousand tons. A sharp rock could do a lot of damage, so these chains protect the tire surface and the shoulders, minimizing the risk of explosion or loss of pressure.
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Sven Grammersdorf 12 months ago
Nope, they are called "protection chains" or sometimes "RUD chains" (from the name of the major manufacturer, RUD Ketten GmbH). They are meant to protect the wheels on rocky ground and improve traction on mud. These tires deal with enormous forces, consider they typically are inflated at 7-8 bar pressure (twice a normal car tire) and are loaded with a few hundreds to a thousand tons. A sharp rock could do a lot of damage, so these chains protect the tire surface and the shoulders, minimizing the risk of explosion or loss of pressure.
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This Can't Be Real, Right? Just Stumbled Upon It On Google
Little CJ 9 months ago
You mean the eensy weency spider wasn't actually small? Now I'm triggered
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Who am I, where am I 11 months ago
Cloud is getting a drink, through a straw, of nice and refreshing ocean water
#45
Massive Cooling Tower With Stairs
Raymond Core 12 months ago
When I was an oil rig inspector, to get to the top of the derrick there was a partially enclosed ladder with a harness, cable, and counterweight. With the harness, you climbed the ladder like you weighed only 10 pounds. It would be a lot easier than those stairs. It would take me half a day to go up and half a day to go back down.
Janissary35680 12 months ago
Sadly though a slinky would only get as far as the next landing.
Load More Replies... Norm Gilmore 12 months ago
Be a bugger if you drop a spanner you need while doing maintenance..
nottheactualphoto 12 months ago
That's why you tie a rope to the spanner, and the other end to your person (belt loop or whatever).
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If they can afford a cooling tower like that, they can afford and elevator. Triple nope.
#46
A Big Hairy Unicorn That Existed As Early As 29,000 Years Ago
Carl Roberts 12 months ago
The correct term would be "as late as 29,000 years ago". But, even that's wrong. The oldest woolly rhino fossils are 3.7 million years old, and the last living species went extinct about 14,000 years ago
Spidercat 12 months ago
The correct term would be 'as recently' as 29,000 years ago...
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Uncle Schmickle 12 months ago
It may be the perspective, but something doesn't look right with the size of the horn relative to the body.
Asher Nelson 11 months ago
This is called the Elsamotherium. Interestingly, recent studies show that it not so much a horn, but a stub
#47
The Kalyazin Rt-64 Radio Telescope In Russia. Built In The Ussr For Robotic Venus And Mars Missions, Still Operational Today
Kabuki Kitsune 12 months ago
It's been used in multiple movie sets and background shots in the past. So you're not far off.
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Chris the Bobcat 12 months ago
The Very Large Array is arguably more impressive, just from the number of large radio telescopes in play.
Dumb teenager 12 months ago
Russian Woodpecker is even more impressive again. Build during the Cold War, it looks like a giant alien fence out of a sci fi movie
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At 64 m of diameter, it's not even that big by radiotelescope standards. The now dead Arecibo was 305 meters wide, and the Chinese FAST is 500 meters wide (but poorly equipped, so the resolution is actually lower than several smallest one. they are trying to rectify it). The German Effelsberg parabola is 100 meters wide, and in Italy there is one just as large, and one with half the diameter but a set of auxiliary antennas that more than make up for the difference.
#48
Oil Rig That Washed Ashore In Scotland
Forrest Hobbs 12 months ago (edited)
tl;dr:: rig being towed for scrapping, high winds tore it loose from the tug boat. More here: https://gcaptain.com/maib-publishes-investigation-report-into-transocean-winner-grounding/, https://weather.com/news/news/drilling-rig-runs-ashore-scottish-coast, https://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/09/europe/oil-rig-scotland-storm/index.html
Norm Gilmore 12 months ago
Don't you hate that. I'm always losing my oil rigs when I go fishing..
Dogcat vet (retired) 12 months ago
I see that and I think 'artificial reef potential wasted here'
#49
Urban Hell
Forrest Hobbs 12 months ago
It's apparently a deceptive shot of the air-con units attached to apartments in this development: https://smdc.com/properties/shore-residences/
George Costanza 12 months ago
What is "hell" about it? That it isn't pretty on the outside? People are likely just living in there, raising families, eating/sleeping/watching TV. Is it really terribly different than anywhere else?
Mistletoe 12 months ago
Scary for me to look at. Insides just your average apartment, but seeing it from the outside is scary and I for sure don’t want to live there.
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Ece Cenker 12 months ago
This doesn't bode much better as far as an urban environment goes.
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I think this is in Pasay, Philippines, and there is nothing hellish about it. The photo is purposely misleading. It's just a big apartment block. And the area is actually quite nice. Beztytuu-6...de0a85.jpg 
#50
Giant Sequoia
Lew k 12 months ago
As amazing as that picture is it still doesn't capture the scale. The redwoods are pure magic. You can spend a year looking at every picture you can find and you'll still be shocked when. You actually see it. The crazy part is 100ft from this tree is another as big, almost as big or bigger.
Mary Tonningsen 12 months ago
Definitely do it if you can, Lunawood! You'll love it!
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I took a picture of my girls like this. I took pictures all the way up. When I put them together, it was truly a great picture.
Mary Tonningsen 12 months ago
I haven't been there in years, but I have great memories of how beautiful it is, and how wonderful it smells there! It's one of my very favorite places here in California! <3
#51
The Skull Of A Purussaurus, An Extinct Giant Caiman
#52
The Foundation Of A Skyscraper
Ece Cenker 12 months ago
More like the foundation depth of a skyscraper. The walls are there for retainment of soil. The foundations are not in place yet.
#53
Millau Viaduct, The Tallest Bridge In The World
The Doom Song 12 months ago
I looked at this bridge and for some strange reason the "Thomas the tank engine " theme popped into my head???
April Pickett 12 months ago
Someone else is driving over that bridge. I'll be in the back seat with a blanket over my head saying my prayers.
cerinamroth 12 months ago
My husband and I drove over this! It’s a good job he was driving and focussed on the road because he hates heights!
#54
The Tallest Church On Earth The Ulm Minster, Germany
cerinamroth 12 months ago
No, there isn’t! The view‘s amazing though: on a clear day you can see the Zugspitze (highest mountain in Germany).
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A Person Standing In Front Of Lava Flowing From The Current Eruption In Iceland
Kabuki Kitsune 12 months ago
Really slow lava flow. If memory serves, the eruption that this photo is from, had lava moving at a speed of about one foot an hour. You could outrun it by crawling on your hands and knees.
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Giant Swords In Norway
#57
A Foggy Bridge
#58
Empire State Building, When It Was First Built
Forrest Hobbs 12 months ago
Full size pic here: https://www.reddit.com/r/megalophobia/comments/1goh3di/empire_state_building_when_it_was_first_built/#lightbox
Rebecca O’Donnell 12 months ago
Love the blimp coming in for a landing on the Empire State Building. The lounge for those passengers is still there but closed off to the public now.
#59
Mauritania’s Iron Ore Train
Jrog 12 months ago
This one is crazy. It's a 2500 meters, 200 railcars long train. It takes a 20-hour, 800 km long trip every day, from the Zouerat iron mines in an inhospitable desert spot to the port of Nouadhibou. Tourists are technically not allowed outside of the passenger car strapped to the convoy, but it's tolerated that they take the trip by climbing on the iron ore cars. They board the train and wait -for hours- until it's ready to leave: it can be at 11 AM, or at 10 PM, meaning you have to be ready for 42°C in the day as well as 5°C during the night. It also passes through a warzone in Choum, in the only stretch of railway in the world owned by an unrecognized country, the second shortest national wailway in the world (after Vatican City).
General Anaesthesia 12 months ago (edited)
Thomas' what? "The train is up to 3km (1.8 miles) in length, travels on a single track of 704 kilometres (437 miles), with 200 – 300 freight carriages, weighing up to a total of 84 tons and making it the longest and heaviest train in the world."
Load More Replies... Kabuki Kitsune 12 months ago
I'm surprised they didn't include a photo of the Sishen–Saldanha railway. Their trains are about 4.1 km (2.5 miles) long. The locomotives all have a motorcycle kept in a storage compartment under them, for in the event something goes wrong and the train comes to a sudden stop, the crew doesn't need to walk all the way back to figure out what broke. They get to ride.
#60
“Devil's Tower, Wyoming. A Large Butte, It Reaches 5112 Feet About Sea Level.”
Linda Lee 12 months ago
What if that was a really big tree that someone cut down and it turned to stone?
The Mediterranean Fruit 12 months ago
I've seen it 10 or so times in person. It's beautiful. Especially in the winter. And it's neat to how it's part of native American culture. Around the base of the tower Native Americans tie prayer tassels (I think) to the trees.
Carl Roberts 12 months ago
The core (aka a volcanic plug) of a long extinct, and eroded volcano
Cara Vinson 12 months ago
It's awe inspiring in person. People also climb it when the falcons are not raising their young.
michael blacklock 12 months ago
It's a volcanic plug I believe. The remains after the softer rock has eroded from the volcano leaving the verticle lava flow.
#61
Stavropol, Russia
#62
Hallgrimskirkja In Reykjavik, Iceland, Even With Cloudy Skies, It Stands Out As An Enchanting Sight
#63
A Salt Mine In Romania
Beak Hookage 12 months ago
Suddenly the idea of being sent to the salt mines doesn't seem so bad.
Atom Bohr 12 months ago
It'd dessicate your skin and lungs if you stated there long enough, like a miner
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Turbine After Tornado
#65
This Picture Is What Did It For Me. Grand Lisboa Hotel
Be Weird 24/7 12 months ago
This is giving Thor vibes.....when he found hulk in that fighting arena hotel thingy....
#66
Alone In The Silence
Daniel Atkins 12 months ago
I don't think this is real Reddit has already remove the image. plus there is nothing that big in space.
Who am I, where am I 11 months ago
Do they hear any space suit noise, or is it actually total silence, I wonder
#67
A Large Anubis Statue On Display
#68
Largest Known Black Hole Compared To Our Solar System. My Brain Cannot Even Comprehend How Big This Is
Lew k 12 months ago
These scales hurt my brain if I think too long on it. Honestly. Something that would take hundreds or thousands of years to travel across at absolute speeds and this is just a spec in the universe. Some of the largest structures in the universe are 1.2 to 1.8 billion light years across. It sounds like just a number but when you focus on the concept for just a bit it's absolutely mind boggling. It takes light half the lifespan of our solar system to get from one side to the other of a cluster of neutron stars. As far as we know the speed of light is an absolute. Which means if we ever even achieve light speed travel it would take longer than the history of life on our planet to even get to some of the closest structures in our universe. Mind absolutely blown.
Michael None 12 months ago (edited)
How inconsequential our lives are in the scope of size and time, space. Existentialism itself doesn't even exist long enough or large enough to have meaning. We are barely anything and barely long enough to note; our entire lives and the lives of everyone who we will ever know or will every remember anything we did or said are so unimportant when compared to everything that is and everything that isn't in the universe. Suffering or joy. Contentment or greed. What does it matter? Soon it's all atoms and dust.
Beak Hookage 12 months ago
"And yourself, an invisible dot on an invisible dot, infinitely small..."
Raymond Core 12 months ago
Heck, my brain can't comprehend how small I am in a city of 12 million people. It's probably a good thing I can't see the forest for the trees.
#69
Check Out This Cave Entrance Chillin' At The Bottom Of A Sinkhole In Guizhou, China. Peep The Four Dudes On The Rock For Size Comparison
#70
La Grande Arche De La Défense, Paris
April Pickett 12 months ago
Is that the same thing as our Pentagon? All the military forces administrations in one building?
BookFanatic 12 months ago
I think it's an office building. https://fr-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Arche_de_la_D%C3%A9fense?_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc
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El Capitan Is A Large Rock
Hassel Davidhoff 12 months ago
Truly. I have a mate that does shït like this and though I love him, I really do believe that this kind of behavior is a trauma response.
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Richi Weiss 12 months ago
And there was a dude who cljmbed it Free Solo (thats also the name of the movie). Alex Honnold is just above and beyond
Campy 12 months ago
If you see a pic of his hands, it becomes less of a mystery how he did it. They're like something out of Greek mythology. The Dawn Wall was a far more amazing climb and a better movie.
Load More Replies... George Costanza 12 months ago
If you try to climb this and you fall and die, I just can't feel bad for you. There's no actual reason you need to climb this. That's on you.
#72
Akshardham Temple, New Delhi, India
#73
Ryugyong Hotel - Pyongyang, North Korea
keyboardtek 12 months ago
This building reflects the mentality of North Korea's leader. Archaic, corroded, and mostrous.
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YakFactory 12 months ago
Seriously, how many tourists go to North Korea? Why would they need such a huge hotel?
#74
A Giant Solar Flare, About 600,000 Km High, Photographed At Japan's Norikura Observatory On July 21, 1992
#75
One World Trade Center In NYC
brandyy17 12 months ago
new yorker here. i do miss the amazing view of the 2 towers. i remember as a kid always being amazed by how tall they were wenever me and my parents went into the city.
Sue Phillips 12 months ago
Yeah, I thought we should build them even taller, get "The Finger" from Al Goldstein, stick it at the top of one of them, and point it east.
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The Chuvash State Opera And Ballet Theater, Russia
Amanda Fondaumiere 12 months ago
Ah yes, opera and ballet are exactly what I think of seeing this building.
#77
Ms World Discoverer A German Expedition Cruise Ship Sank In Solomon Islands
#78
Imagine Being Scuba Diving And Seeing That
#79
The Statue Of Liberty Compared To Other Statues Around The World!
Multa Nocte 12 months ago
Where is the African Renaissance Monument from Senegal? It's larger than the Christ the Redeemer statue.
RedMarbles 12 months ago
It's not claiming these are the six tallest, just the tallest compared to some others.
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Duga Radar - Chernobyl
Forrest Hobbs 12 months ago
A Soviet over-the-horizon early warning radar system, shut down in 1989. It was incredibly anti-social in its use of the radio spectrum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duga_radar#%22Russian_Woodpecker%22
#81
Giant Cranes Being Delivered To Liverpool Docks
Forrest Hobbs 12 months ago (edited)
Strictly speaking, they're used at the Port of Liverpool's Container Terminal 2 which is at Seaforth just north of Liverpool proper. They are astonishingly huge - I mean, really, REALLY, big. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Liverpool+2+Container+Terminal/@53.4544782,-3.0293376,962m and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool2
#82
The Cascades From Seattle
Socks Thecate 12 months ago
Only went to Seattle once. It was cloudy it was foggy for two days. Then it cleared up and Mount Rainier was suddenly visible. It looked so amazing.
Nancy Lynch 11 months ago
Volcanoes are in the cascades. In Salem, OR, on a clear day I can see 4volcanoes from one spot. MTs Jefferson, Hood, Adams, and St Helens. It's so cool!
#83
Do Clouds Give You The Feeling? Part 2
#84
Russian Tsar Alexander’s Confusingly Large Bathtub
#85
The Hindenberg Disaster
Forrest Hobbs 12 months ago (edited)
For the "Oh the humanity" live recording onto acetate from a journalist who saw the whole event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Live_audio_recording_from_the_scene_of_the_Hindenburg_disaster_1937-05-06_19-25_EST.oga
Load More Replies... Forrest Hobbs 12 months ago (edited)
Most of those on board survived. Incredible to think of. US navy men rushed to assist heedless of risk. "The accident caused 35 fatalities (13 passengers and 22 crewmen) among the 97 people on board (36 passengers and 61 crewmen), and an additional fatality on the ground." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster
Mae 12 months ago
Thank you for all the facts you've been posting on this article Forrest, it's fascinating! You've been giving me lots to read up on :)
Load More Replies... Forrest Hobbs 12 months ago
Yep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ_129_Hindenburg. Named after Paul von Hindenburg. "Burg" is town; "Berg" is mountain.
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#86
The Size Of Scaffolding During Maintenance On The Statue Of Liberty
Who am I, where am I 11 months ago (edited)
We don't have bamboo here unfortunately 😔
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The Titanic’s Boilers
Kabuki Kitsune 12 months ago
One or two actually survive outside the ship. This design of Scotch boilers (that's the type, fyi), were also used in some factories. There's a couple preserved examples of boilers like these.
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Ellison's Cave Features The Deepest Unobstructed Pit In The Continental Us
Forrest McCanless 12 months ago (edited)
Son has done this (it's just a couple hours away). Said you also have to think about humping a 600' single rope an hour or so through the cave first, and then also, climbing back up. Even with an ascension rack, it's still a long climb. Deaths there are not from falls, but from hypothermia. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczPR-4M-mrA9h4zOZAXbVZfcBHY0u3hyz7wk-AwZG4AJne8b-oH2g8EdCeB_1WA50ccn7wZ-TizDfypG7KA34OFkjc95KP5OFimqgvd0OcUpqWnSc-j2D14POSrht-tYGJxZFHblrFXv_J43kt_ZS_Smeg=w648-h967-s-no?authuser=0
Ece Cenker 12 months ago
They would have to take breaks descending to avoid decompression sickness, am I wrong?
Juanita, the ginger cat 12 months ago
I don't think so because it's not underwater, but I can be wrong.
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Basketball Court Built Inside Karst Cave In Guizhou, China
April Pickett 12 months ago
No rain, no snow, average temperature all year long. It needs better seating though.
#90
The Inside Of A Nuclear Cooling Tower
Forrest Hobbs 12 months ago
These things weren't specific for nuclear plants: they’re cooling towers for power stations which made electricity by supplying high pressure super-heated steam to turbines which drove electrical generators. More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooling_tower
Ace 12 months ago
Yes, I'm often annoyed by pictures of ordinary power stations where ill-informed posters have concluded that somehow cooling tower=nuclear.
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Large Ship Ain't It
Jrog 12 months ago
It's the Esso Pacific, later Kapetan Michalis. Built in 1977 by Hitachi Zosen Corporation in Japan, dismantled in 2002 in Pakistan. She could not navigate any of the channels commonly used by shipping, including the English Channel. The two in her class (Pacific and Atlantic) were the third longest ships ever built, behind the four French Batillus class and the Seawise Giant/Knock Nevis
Jrog 12 months ago
All of those ships went out of service roughly around 2002, when the whole concept of VLCCs (Very Large Crude Carriers) died for good. Drop in oil prices, increasing insurance from extreme risk of incredibly expensive accidents, environmental concerns and travel restrictions, and a shift in the economics of oil production toward south America and the North Sea made those ships unusable and uneconomic, sealing much welcome end of an era.
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#92
Warsaw Radio Mast (1974) Tallest Structure On Earth Until It's Collapse In 1991
Jrog 12 months ago (edited)
Lots of funny stories on this thing's engineering. When they built it, soviet engineers failed to account for wind oscillations and basically eyballed the calculations for the stay cables, so just 15 years after the construction, when ownership was transferred to the Warsaw Radio-Television organization, it was in such a dire state that maintenance crews and engineers proposed to dismantle the tower and rebuild it proper. In pure Soviet style, they decided NOT to do a full rebuild, instead just... repaint it. So they started, but run out of paint mid-job. So, in pure Soviet style again, they shrugged and claimed "good enough". By 1990 the tower was standing by pure miracle, with all but two of the cables in severely degraded condition.
Jrog 12 months ago (edited)
They decided to at least try to save the tower by replacing the cables in the worst condition, but botched the job by leaving the tower unsupported while installing the temporary cables. The tower finally decided it was tired of fighting against gravity, common sense and Soviet craftsmanship. She folded like a twig, taking out a construction crane in the fall as a way to express its disappointment to the Polish repair crew / clown company .
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#93
This Huge Cave In China Is So Big It Has Its Own Weather
#94
A Picture Of The Eiffel Tower I Took Today
#95
Photo Of Inside The New Confinement Enclosure At Chernobyl Power Plant
Forrest Hobbs 12 months ago
The Sun is nuclear power. Without the sun, we've had it, so you’re right. In the meantime, the Chernobyl enclosure is guaranteed for a century, by which time they expect to have dismantled, removed, and placed into appropriate safe storage all of the mess left behind. It's also possible to "treat" the worst of the waste and - oh, just look up Carlo Rubbia's Energy Amplifier proposal. CERN has validated the idea, and Rubbia does have a Nobel prize (in physics, not literature).
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You Lose It Here, You’re In A World Of Hurt
Madam Puddyfoot 12 months ago
You can check out the documentary 'Man on Wire' which documents Phillipe Petit's walk between the twin towers in 1974. It is amazing.
Abel 12 months ago (edited)
I watched it. The guy was pretty crazy, but he did it!
Load More Replies... Michael None 12 months ago
Ehh you'd probably pass out before making contact with the ground. The knowledge of your impending impact would overload your brain and you'd lose consciousness..... Probably.
Mike F 12 months ago
You would probably die of old age first. That looks WAY high!
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Pyla 12 months ago
Because it’s there. There is a documentary on this. Should be on TwoAdds
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One Does Not Simply Walk Into Mohammed Bin Rashid Solar Park
Ece Cenker 12 months ago
There might be a misson or a lootbox lying at the center of it.
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A Single Tenant. Polanco, Mexico City
Daniel Gómez 12 months ago
One of the richest. Even wealthier people live in Lomas de Chapultepec and Huixquilucan.
Load More Replies... Kabuki Kitsune 12 months ago
Probably the building owner, who's hanging onto the building until some other developer comes along and buys it off them. I'd be willing to bet that the building went up before Polanco became an expensive neighborhood, and the owner bought the land for dirt cheap at the time.
Pittsburgh rare 12 months ago
Polanco is a posh neighborhood in Mexico city. This is the ugly part
#99
Goldin Finance 117, The World’s Tallest Abandoned Building 1,957 Ft (597 M)
#100
Manhattan Bridge On A Snow Day In NYC
ZuriLovesYou 12 months ago
I like this. Something about snow in big cities is so magical to me.
#101
The Hoover Dam Spillway Tunnel, Basically A Brutalism Hole
#102
Junji Ito Inspired Hot Air Balloon Over Yoyogi Park, Tokyo, Japan
Daniel Atkins 12 months ago
That would definitely startle you if you woke up looked and out the window first thing in the morning.
#103
This Bridge Is In China, Yunnan And It Is 300m From The Ground, Too Far
#104
The Volkshalle - 'People's Hall' - Proposed By Architect Albert Speer And F*****r Adolf Hitler Would Have Been So Large, Its Own Weather System Would've Formed Within It's Dome
Forrest Hobbs 12 months ago
Mmm. Probably would have sunk in Berlin’s notorious soggy ground. They did experiments, one of which still exists - a huge concrete cylinder to test what Berlin's marshy ground could bear by way of construction pressure. It's still there, on account of being too expensive to demolish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerbelastungskörper. Meanwhile, the UK wasn't messing about with crazy fantasy future architecture: it were working on beating Germany. Strange how it all turned out, isn't it? I mean, the UK did create huge concrete structures later on in that war, only they were for invasion and one actually worked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulberry_harbours
#105
What It Would Look Like If Jupiter Replaced Our Moon
Jrog 12 months ago
Not that one would notice anyway: we would all be dead from the tidal waves ripping apart civilization as we know it.
Load More Replies... Nils Skirnir 12 months ago
Saw this and Saturn one. Don’t believe it as both would be a helluva lot bigger. We wouldn’t see it anyway as we’d all be pulled apart then crushed. Then incinerated
George Costanza 12 months ago
Jupiter wouldn't replace our moon. We'd be one of Jupiter's moons.
#106
So Much Firepower In One Photo
#107
Insane Clouds
Who am I, where am I 11 months ago
I saw these right before sunset a couple of years ago in Pennsylvania, US. I think the colors made them even more beautiful
#108
Octagon (Egyptian Ministry Of Defense) Seen From The Plane
Be Weird 24/7 12 months ago
Alien planet...that's the first thing that came to my mind when I saw it
#109
Ocean Farm 1, Capable Of Producing Up To 12,000 Tons Of Fish A Year
Michael None 12 months ago
Just how do you propose we feed our massive overpopulation then, hmmmmmm?
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Jrog 12 months ago
The title is just the yellow thing, that is a semi-submersible offshore salmon farming plant. it's 110 meters wide, 67 meters high and can grow 1,6 million salmons at a time. Built in China and moved to Norway. It's is not having much economic success, it's running in the red and already needed extensive repairs and retrofitting after just two years of operations. Also, their supply of fish feed came from Ukraine and was disrupted by the war, leading to much higher operating cost than expected. It may come to a surprise, but it is a far better and healthier method for salmon production than the current fishing farms, and is much more environmentally sustainable than free range fishing.
#110
Abandoned Powerplant From Blade Runner 2049 Movie [oc]
![Abandoned Powerplant From Blade Runner 2049 Movie [oc]](https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/673c1e0137f9b_j9bl38kvdp1e1-jpeg__700.jpg "Abandoned Powerplant From Blade Runner 2049 Movie [oc]")
Kabuki Kitsune 12 months ago
Abandoned power station in Hungary. The photo is taken mid demolition. What you're looking at here, is one of the boilers and its ash removal system.
April Pickett 12 months ago
Look at the top of the picture, it should tell you more about it.
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Giant Birds…reminded Me Of Rodan From Godzilla Kotm
#112
Giant Waterpark In Qatar
Forrest Hobbs 12 months ago
No, run away. What's in the distances looks like a chemical manufacturing works.
#113
A Church Built A Massive Baby Jesus Statue In Mexico
Rosecrucian Roeth 12 months ago
I don't know...........for Christ's sake, maybe?
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#115
A McDonald's In Belfast, Today
#117
The Electric State Is A Very Creepy Graphic Novel
#118
Burj Khalifa Lights Up With The Palestine Flag
Steinem Sukker Rumpe 12 months ago
0a sky scraper built from yemini slaves, displaying the flag of a nation they refuse to help.
Daniel German 12 months ago
Nothing says 'indigenous' like a flag invoking 5 foreign countries...
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#119
The Visionary "Dubai City Tower"
#120
District 9, Massive Alien Ship Flys Over City
Beak Hookage 12 months ago
100% real - it happened back in 2009 in Johannesburg
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MP Deco 9 months ago
sorry.....the US deserves bashing and you know that.
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Rainbow Roger 12 months ago
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somnomania (she/her, queer) 11 months ago
most of these didn't set off my megalophobia; landscape features and trees never do it, but animals over a certain size do, statues over a certain size, and planets. all that made me uncomfortable in this list were the cooling tower, the tornado, bagger 293, and saturn in the sky.
Tyranamar Suess 12 months ago
This article needs a different name. I’m not sure what. Most of it was beautiful scenery, mixed with some fear of heights. And maybe a few giant things.
Hassel Davidhoff 12 months ago
Hey Bored Panda, can we get more stuff like this and less stuff about celebrities and lists of stuff someone thinks we should buy?
Parmeisan 12 months ago
Also all the expert interviews. That must comprise a not-insignificant portion of the site's budget and surely I'm in the majority in just scrolling past that part of every thread.
Load More Replies... MP Deco 9 months ago
sorry.....the US deserves bashing and you know that.
Load More Replies... Paul Rabit 12 months ago
The Premium Option is the best thing that has ever happened to me.... by not joining, I save so much time not scrolling endlessly!
Pencil 12 months ago
Right? It just cuts off all the list entries that weren't worth looking at to begin with. They should have done this years ago!
Load More Replies... Rainbow Roger 12 months ago
are the original photographers getting compensated from the premium subscriptions you know photographers have the right to issue a dmca takedown request
somnomania (she/her, queer) 11 months ago
most of these didn't set off my megalophobia; landscape features and trees never do it, but animals over a certain size do, statues over a certain size, and planets. all that made me uncomfortable in this list were the cooling tower, the tornado, bagger 293, and saturn in the sky.
Tyranamar Suess 12 months ago
This article needs a different name. I’m not sure what. Most of it was beautiful scenery, mixed with some fear of heights. And maybe a few giant things.
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