Hey Daniel, are your kids as tall as you are yet?

Not yet, I've still got an inch on my 15-year-old, but he's already passed my wife.

How much you are your kids taller than you are?

Not yet, but my son is taller than my wife now, by a lot.

It's amazing that you never see them actually grow, and yet one day they're going to look

down on us.

I mean, physically not figuratively.

That's been happening for years for me, but at this rate, they'll be twice our height

in about five years, right?

They're definitely going to be twice as smart as we are.

I mean, I'm already forgetting things faster than they're learning them.

I think my son is already smarter than me.

Does that mean you've peaked in terms of your brain and your height?

Yeah, I think it's just downhill from here, and I'm really not looking forward to incontinental

drift.

Wait, don't you mean continental drift?

No, I mean, the inevitable drift into incontinence.

That would be Earth-shaking.

Hi, I'm Jorge M. Cartunis, and the author of Oliver's Great Big Universe.

Hi, I'm Daniel.

I'm a particle physicist and a professor at UC Irvine, and I've eaten astronaut ice cream

but I've never worn astronaut underwear.

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