Type III civilization?

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Let us say that a type III civilization visits Earth and does not see it as insignificant as we would an anthill. What would these benevolent aliens find most "neat" or intriguing about our civilization?
50-100 years? Are you mad? To 1. Harness the power of THE ENTIRE EARTH, 2. HARNESS THE POWER OF THE WHOLE SUN, AND THEN 3. CONTROL THE WHOLE GALAXY in 50-100 years? That means we would have to expand as a civilization at faster than the speed of light and pull enormous resources out of thin air (space)! Take a look into the books of Michio Kaku and you might understand the Kardachev scale.
If your argument was that we could develop wrap drive by then, your idea is unproven and mad! I'm sorry if I mistake you as a "wannabe" theoretical physicist.
Thanks supernaova, finally an optimistic answer!
 
The Kardashev scale (I assume that's what you mean by type III) only describes energy use, and is probably irrelevant to describing advanced civilizations. They may have no interest in harnessing huge amounts of energy.

What many people don't understand is the exponential rate of technological change. We may see more change in the next 50 years than we did in the past 500. It's possible, if unlikely, that we'll experience a technological singularity within the next 20-30 years that will completely transform humanity in a matter of years. We might become a "type III" civilization ourselves in 50-100 years.

What that means from the standpoint of your question is that any civilization more than a few hundred years more advanced than us *will* see us as an anthill. Could we maybe find some way to communicate with ants? Some researcher might, using a little ant robot and phermomones, but it wouldn't be a very interesting conversation from our point of view. Why bother?

So to answer your question, I can't imagine any advanced civilization would find much unique or interesting about us. We're just wildlife, like a million other civilizations at the stage where they first crawled out of the muck.
 
my personal opinion on aliens: life is fairly common, on a bacterial level. advanced life gets wacked by something quite a bit. there are few stable planetary systems out there to sustain life long enough to go technological. we are probably alone in the sense that we may encounter life, but not very often.
 
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