The Mendocino Complex Fire, now the largest in California ever, continues to burn.…
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Scale of the California wildfires
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Scale comparison of wildfires
The past few days in California has been non-stop rain, but the months…
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Mass exodus at human scale
Big numbers are too abstract in our minds to fully understand the scale…
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Measuring things with ships
We might be in an age of big data, but people have been…
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Solar System in a bottle
From Little Planet Factory, a Solar System in a bottle made to scale:…
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Scale of Aleppo against Berlin and London
A lot of people around the world including myself don’t quite understand the…
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Giant map for inauguration planning
In planning for the upcoming inauguration, the U.S. military is using a giant…
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Scale model of the Solar System
In most depictions of the Solar System, planets are drawn big enough to…
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If the Moon were one pixel in size
Somehow these space-in-perspective graphics and interactives never get old. I guess the size…
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Really slow speed of light
The “speed of light” typically means “really fast” but when it’s relative to…
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A tall graphic to show Mt. Everest scale
Mt. Everest is a tall mountain. How tall is it?? Glad you asked.…
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Planets as fruit to show scale
I still don’t understand the relative size of planets. The universe is too…
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Most cited research papers
In the department of comparing large numbers to objects and situations that are…
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Relative size of astronomy stuff
Look! More size of very big things with large numbers, compared against things…
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U.S. overlaid on the Moon for a sense of scale
How big is the Moon, really? Reddit user boredboarder8 provided some perspective with…
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True size of Vatican City
We saw the true size of Africa, relative to the world’s largest countries,…
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Comparison of the largest stars
You’ve most likely seen a couple of views of the universe to provide…
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100 Pixar characters drawn to scale
Designer Juan Pablo Bravo illustrates 100 Pixar characters to scale, from Wally B.…
