The Death Star correctly scaled, looming over Florida.
Perspective is always a good thing.
YouTuber, Kevin Wisbith, has been creating videos that take large things (like skyscrapers, Space Shuttles, extinct animals, etc.) and placing them in scaled pictures of other things. The results are fascinating and fun.
He recently shared some of the images he created on Imgur. Check out a few of our favorites below.
If the HMS Titanic were dropped on top of a Nimitz Class aircraft carrier, there would be 210 feet of deck to spare.
The world’s largest oil tanker in the middle of Central Park.
The Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower) inside the Mir Mine in Russia.
The exercise also seems like it has great potential for a class project that utilizes tools such as Photoshop (or Pixlr, an web-based free Photoshop-like tool) or apps like Photoshop Mix that let you superimpose photos on top of other photos.