QUOTE(hatchbuilder @ Sep 12 2007, 02:04 AM)

if you where from a race that was millions of years ahead of us in technology how would you react if you came across our little planet and it,s backwater technology would make contact observe help ? or would you experiment on them wondering what every one thinks
If I was that race, I'd probably think we were cute and kinda funny looking, but I'd probably want to experiment on us to see what we were all about.
I would make contact - but with a huge gun behind my back - just in case the locals were hostile, and I would want to study their behaviours and their technology.
Similarly, I reckon if we ever found life on another planet and it was behind us intelectually and technologically, we'd experiment, observe them and make contact with them to see what they were all about.