I was watching this video... http://youtube.com/watch?v=IybiWcEcCoU and remembered the scene in the Victorian room... The worst thing I can think of is the human race as 'amusement' to a superior race -
our planet as a parrot cage, and humans as a species that does funny things and (un)successfully emulates larger things. In 2001, we do escape our cage, (the earth, the solar system) but, ...