It’s a big world out there, bigger than some of us can even imagine. With our busy schedules and deadlines, it can be hard sometimes to zoom out. But we can all relax because, in reality, we are all just tiny specks on a tiny rock floating through space. We’ve compiled a list of some of the most jaw-dropping photos guaranteed to make you feel small and realize just how tiny we truly are. Scroll down to find your favorite. Enjoy!
This photo of people walking up a sand dune in Namibia looks like a portrait
Ok, this photograph doesn’t look real, but rather looks like a very talented art piece. It’s scary to think about just how tall this sand dune is and how one can easily fall off the side by accident. It takes so real guts to be able to reach the top.
Inside the Giant underground flooding channel in Tokyo
It’s quite frightening to imagine this space filled with loads of churning waters. We’re curious how much water it’s able to hold. This looks like something out of a nightmare and is guaranteed to make anyone feel miniature. Imagine the echo in this place. If it were us, we would get as far away as possible from there.
The Grand Lisboa hotel in Macau, China looks like its towering over the city
The Lisboa Hotel is just looming in the background. It almost doesn’t look real but there is no photoshop going on in this photo. This view from the streets of Macau looks so menacing. This is a perfect example of what a dystopian reality would look like in our opinion. We’d feel extremely small looking up at that hotel from the streets below.
two men casually sitting on top of the world’s biggest clock in mecca
If this doesn’t bring out your fear of heights, we don’t know what will. This is the Abraj Al Bait clock tower in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. You couldn’t pay us to sit on this clock. This photo is next-level anxiety-inducing. How does someone even get up there? Either way, our palms are sweating and this clock is too big to even comprehend.
This is not photoshopped: the airbus a380 passes directly above the highway
Apparently, chickens aren’t the only ones who cross the road. If we saw this A380 crossing the bridge in Singapore, we’d be quite frightened. Seeing a plane rolling along a highway isn’t something you see every day. The size of this plane compared to the cars below really puts things into perspective in a scary way.
A sports stadium with a view
Even if we were the losing team, we wouldn’t even mind because of the view. We didn’t know it was even possible to have a stadium literally inside a mountain, but here we are. This is definitely one way to feel mega small. If you’ve ever sat at a stadium, you never want to be all the way at the top, but in this case, nosebleed seats would be preferred.
This photo taken from Voyager 1 proves that Earth is just a speck in space
If you look closely, you can see a pale blue dot in a sunbeam. That is in fact Earth. This photo was taken back in 1990 6 billion km away from Earth. It’s hard to believe this tiny dot is what we call home. Just looking at this is very humbling. The size of Earth here is smaller than a pixel, illustrating just how small we are in the vastness of space.
Olympus Mons is the largest mountain in the entire solar system, reaching 22km high
We don’t know what to think about this. Just when we thought we’ve seen the tallest and biggest mountains, we’re taken back down to Earth, or in this case, Mars. To put this into perspective, Mount Everest reaches 8.8 km high. Mount Olympus makes Mount Everest look like a small hill. Mars continues to intrigue us.
This girl is innocently standing right in front of a tornado just one mile away
Um, what exactly is going on through this girl’s head? Sure, let’s just snap a quick picture before this F1 tornado gets any closer. At least this tornado is giving her a good hair flip. We don’t like this one bit and is bringing out lots of fears right now. It’s never a good idea to dare mother nature’s powers. You never know what her next move will be.
A sailboat in comparison to The USS Iowa battleship
It’s crazy to think that such heavy battleships can float on top of the water. The sheer size of it is breathtaking and makes us a little queasy. Imagine swimming under that thing, no thank you. This little sailboat has got nothing on this massive battleship. Looks like the sailboat is going to have to scoot over and get out of the way.
The anxiety-inducing view of mount fuji from the streets below
Well, this is further proof yet again that nature conquers all and we are just mere humans living in her world. Mount Fuji is the second highest volcano that can be found in Japan. It’s about 3,776 meters high and its formation looks like something out of a movie. The clouds above it, called lenticular clouds look like pancakes and are definitely showing off.
This African Renaissance Monument with humans for scale is the tallest statue in Africa
This renaissance monument in Senegal in West Africa is quite the sight. It looks overwhelmingly huge just from the picture, so imagine how it would look in person. We can’t even wrap our heads around the size of this, which by the way, is about 49 meters high.
Astronaut Bruce McCandless II hangs high above Earth completely untethered during a spacewalk
Well, this is utterly terrifying. Bruce was the first person in history to ever do this and he has nothing but his manned maneuvering unit to help him breathe. He has no ropes attached to him with no space shuttle in sight. It takes a lot of guts to pull off a stunt like this. This just gives us a panic attack.
