7 mind-blowing comparisons that put huge numbers into perspective

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The human brain is great at lots of things, but appreciating really big numbers is a task where the brain just kind of gives up.

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Sure, the Empire State Building is big, but so are the Earth and the solar system. And all of those things are big at wildly different magnitudes.

That's where scale models come in handy.

Sometimes the only way to understand the world at its extremes is to put it in terms we use every day.

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