You Like Talking to Strangers, NASA’s Golden Record, and Your Actual Friend Limit
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2018
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Learn about how many friends you can have at one time, according to research; why you might like talking to strangers more than you realize; and the golden record NASA once launched into space.
In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes:
- Despite Social Media, You Can Only Have 150 Friends at a Time — https://curiosity.im/2DPkND1
- This Study Says You Might Like Talking to Strangers More Than You Realize — https://curiosity.im/2p5iBhh
- NASA Once Launched a Golden Record of Earth's Music Into Space — https://curiosity.im/2N4eSOp
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, we've got three of your favorite stories from the past year to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:05.8 | I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.7 | Today you learn about how many friends you can have at one time, according to research, |
| 0:12.0 | why you might like talking to strangers more than you realize, and the golden record NASA once launched into space. |
| 0:18.0 | Let's launch into some curiosity on the award-winning Curiosity Daily. |
| 0:22.0 | You might have a lot of Facebook friends, |
| 0:24.0 | but research suggests that there's a limit |
| 0:26.0 | to how many friends you can maintain at the same time. |
| 0:29.0 | Care to guess how many? |
| 0:30.0 | 2,000. |
| 0:31.0 | Is that how many Facebook friends you have? |
| 0:33.0 | I think it's actually something around there. |
| 0:35.0 | I think mine is too, yeah. |
| 0:36.0 | It's a lot of friends. |
| 0:37.0 | I have fewer Twitter followers than I have Facebook friends, but I'm working on it. |
| 0:41.0 | We're like way above the average for Facebook friends. |
| 0:44.0 | Yeah, no big deal. |
| 0:45.0 | Mm. |
| 0:46.0 | Well, it's not 2000, I'll just tell you that. |
| 0:50.0 | This number comes from Robin Dunbar. |
| 0:52.0 | He's an anthropologist and psychologist at the University of Oxford. |
| 0:55.9 | And Dunbar's number says you can only have, ready for it, |
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