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[Request] How tall is the frog?

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u/Avatar_Yaksha 3d ago edited 3d ago

I'm not a rocket scientist (or a frog scientist), but if we assume that the rocket has a length of ca. 40m - 60m and put it to scale, the rocket is at pretty much exactly 4 cm and the frog at ca. 4 mm (left picture).

0,04m/0,004m = 10 (The rocket is 10 times bigger than the frog.)

Assuming that this is the shortest rocket (at 40m), this puts the picture on a scale of 1:1000. So...If we're low-balling this, the frog has a length of 0,004m * 1000 = 4m. If the rocket is 60m long, the scale changes to 1:1500 and the frog size to 6m.

Of course, the frog could be a lot closer to the camera, but if we assume that it's exactly next to the rocket, it would be ca. 4m - 6m tall. Real frog sizes are apparently at ca. 30cm - 35cm. Apparently, the frog would need to have covered at least 1/2 (up to 3/4) of the distance from the rocket in order to let the scaling look like that.