I used to work in a job where we supplied some materials for windmill blade manufacture. One of the most interesting things was that the length of the blades means that when they collect dirt, the wobble from being unbalanced can really hugely cut down on the energy the can generate. So the lifespan of a blade is surprisingly short and developing surfaces that don’t collect dirt/debris is a huge drive.
In the OP’s video, I was a bit mystified by the map of the U.S. superimposed on the Moon. They are a similar size. Which one is supposed to be surprisingly large?
It could be a perspective thing - that it’s small but closer to you than other penises.
Yep. My grandmother had a planter that was made out of the cover of an old street light. Granddad used to work for the city power company. It was probably more than a foot across and almost twice as deep.
I liked the one where they replaced the moon with Saturn. That’s cool, we should do that.
Kind of gave up after that, why was this a video instead of a list of photos?
Same with Mt. Rushmore. Looks great in photos, but completely underwhelming when standing under it.
That’s specifically a Harpy Eagle foot. Their legs are as thick as a human wrist. They have to be that powerful to yank monkeys and sloths out of trees in flight. Golden and Bald Eagles have much smaller talons (but still impressive).
I can vouch for the Leatherback Sea Turtle. I watched one lay it’s eggs one night, and it seemed the size of a Volkswagen bug.
Looking out from the top of the Tower is perhaps even more impressive than the view from the Empire State building because there are no other tall buildings in Paris.
The Great Lakes.
Another animal we don’t realize the size of are domestic pigs. A really big one can be the size of a cow.
This. We visited the Railroad Museum in Revelstoke, B.C. and I was amazed how huge an actual steam locomotive is. They don’t look that big in the movies.
Well, that’s true.
In general, I have the opposite effect. Things often look smaller than I had imagined. I can’t think of anything that looked bigger than I had thought.
The big cats I saw at Cat Tales in Spokane. Previously, I’d only seen them from a distance at places like the San Diego Zoo.
From 2 feet away just on the other side of a fence, they are truly enormous. Here, kitty kitty.
Likewise, I was croggled when I recently read that the white lane dividers painted on roads and highways are each about ten feet long. They look so short when you’re zipping past 'em at 65 mph.
I wasn’t really surprised by the cruise ship. I see them heading down the Hudson River all the time and the larger ones look like a block of 20 story office buildings cruising down river. They even dwarf the USS Intrepid when they are docked next to it. And yet, the two times I’ve been on a cruise I found it mind-numbingly boring.
The first time I went to a baseball game as a kid I was shocked and amazed just how large the outfield is. On TV it looks like a medium size band of green but it is huge.
Here’s an astonishing image. It’s a map of the entire area of the moon that was explored by the crew of Apollo 11 superimposed on a baseball diamond.
Sure they look short when you are zipping along, but what if you are in, say, a slow moving vehicle?
And the tips of the blades move WAY faster than you would think just by looking at one in action. They seem so slow.
I think that virtually everybody subconsciously thinks of the statue and the pedestal together as being the statue.
https://www.nps.gov/stli/planyourvisit/get-the-facts.htm
Anyhow, based on your figure, that’s the equivalent of an 11-story building, which is certainly a skyscraper.