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10 photos that will change your vision of the world!

Kevin Wisbith, is the American student behind the project "A Quick Perspective." This project involves creating photo edits using things we all know, so we can see how big they really are! For example, we get to see the world's largest scorpion sharing a meal with some common house cats.

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Star Wars is awesome!

1. The Death Star / The Earth

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Although it doesn’t really exist, the Death Star is 99 miles in diameter! If it were real, it would be able to cover 1/4 of Florida!

2. The largest asteroid known / The Golden Gate Bridge

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"The 2.6 Trillion Dollar Rock" is the biggest asteroid we know of! It was named by Americans because the resources found in this rock are estimated at $2,600,000,000,000!

Let's talk about size, this asteroid is almost a mile long!

3. The Mir Mine / Willis Tower

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The Mir Mine is located in Russia. It is the fourth largest excavation in the world and it’s nearly 4000 feet in diameter and 1722 feet deep!

If you put the second tallest building in the United States at the bottom of this hole, it would only stick out 7 feet above ground level!

4. The Titanic / USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier

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The Titanic set sail in 1912, and at the time, with 882 feet in length, it was the largest boat in the world! Now you see it on the American aircraft carrier the USS Ronald Reagan, and its size seems small in comparison!

5. World's Largest Oil Tanker / Central Park Lake

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The Seawise Giant is 1504 feet long! This means that it is larger than the Eiffel Tower and even the Empire State Building.

If you put it on the main lake in Central Park, you’d only have 350 feet of room in front of and behind the boat!

6. The World's Largest Scorpion / Neighborhood Cats

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Pulmonoscorpius kirktonensis is a species of prehistoric scorpion. This species has changed so much since prehistory that it was once as big as a cat!

7. M-1 Rocket Motor / car

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The M-1 rocket engine was the world's largest engine designed by NASA! Its diameter is big enough to cover a car!

8. Burj Khalifa / New York

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Burj Khalifa is currently the largest standing structure in the world! If you put it in New York, you would realize that this building surpasses all others. It would even be 1300 feet taller than the Empire State Building!

9. The largest radio telescope in the world

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The largest radio telescope in the world is almost 1600 feet in diameter!

10. US Stealth Bomber / Football field

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The B-2 bomber is the most expensive aircraft in the world! Its wingspan doesn’t look that big, but it is 152 feet wide, or 12 feet wider than a football field!