[longshadow]

Then we'll be rulers of a galaxy populated by nothing more advanced than clams and slugs. Not very stimulating company, but at least they might taste good.

You better hope they aren't thinking the exact same thing about us.....

[PatrickHenry]

I can outrun a clam.

[edwin hubble]

"Not very stimulating company, but at least they might taste good."

This recalls the wise alien in the movie who walked around with a serious-looking book entitled "To Serve Man".
He was lionized by the liberal press.

Turned out to be a cookbook.