Hey Kelly, where do you think your kids are going to live when they grow up?

Well, right now, my oldest is saying she's going to stay in the house and have 14 cats and 10 kids.

And I guess I'm hoping that she's not in my house when that happens but I also don't want her too far because I'd love to see her and her many creatures as much as possible.

Well what would mean too far are we talking like South America or Antarctica?

I'd make those trips, although I wouldn't be super excited about Antarctica, but I suspect

I'm going to be a pretty determined grandparent.

What if they have grandbabies like in near-Earth orbit on the space station?

I'd be a bit disappointed for her poor decisions, because I'm not sure that that's safe yet. But if that's what I have to do to see the

grandkids and my love is unconditional I'm in.

All right and what if they move to Mars and have little Martian babies?

Oh my gosh I don't I don't, maybe we should set up a video link.

Well, it's good to know the limits of your love.

Yeah, no, there's Alpha Centauri is a good limit.

But you know, what's worrying me is we're having this conversation and now I have to make sure that my kids in the future and my grandkids don't listen to this conversation

because they're going to get ideas and they'll move out

deep into the solar system. Right now they know exactly how far they have to move to

avoid grandparent visits. Yep good luck kids. Hi I'm Daniel I'm a particle physicist and a professor at UC Irvine and I hope my kids move far away.

I'm Kelly Wiener Smith. I'm a parasitologist and adjunct at Rice University and you know I'd like

my kids to be close but maybe not in the house.

I have lots of friends here whose kids graduate from high school go to college and then

move back home in this neighborhood they call that failure to launch.

That's a big thing now, yeah. My kids can stay with me as long as they need to.

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