If an alien species seeded Earth along with all life on it...?

[Shadowferal]

*shrugs*
Strength/power, and the will to use it is the ultimate virtue.
So..as they say, not as we say.

[Kallisto]

Legally? According to whom? Earth based life? Then no. Alien interplanetary court? Maybe.

If they claimed it, came along to the planet and demand control over the planet, would we be able to do some kind of X-com or war of the worlds or Independence Day defence? Laughably no.

[Antiganon]

We have nukes. Do our nukes defeat their ownership claim?

Put another way: Does Dr. Frankenstein's claim if ownership over his monster matter if the monster rips his arms off and beats him to death with them?

[Draco-Onis]

If their guns are bigger than our guns which most likely would be the case then yes.

[Shadowferal]

You actually think your little firecrackers are going to be effective?
Cute.

[Nihilist74]

(Assuming they could PROVE it!)
If an alien species seeded Earth along with all life on it would Earth and everything on it legally become their property?

I am going to say No, but Technically Maybe

I don't think any species that has sentience should be any other things property.

[Antiganon]

You actually think your little firecrackers are going to be effective?
Cute.

The bomb itself probably not, but the resulting EMP could be.

[Daedius]

Our laws would matter little to them.

[Nastard]

What if this is true, and sometime in the future aliens came and said "okay, looks like the human crop is finally ready to be harvested."

"Huh?! I'm not food, I'm a person."

"Yeah sorry, on our planet we eat humans."

"Bullshit, I'm a sentient being and you can't eat me."

"Sorry, it was always your future to be made into a biscuit. It's your fault for tasting so good."

"I have rights."

"You have the right to be delicious."

Think I'll go now and eat a big juicy burger before I start to make too much of a correlation to animals here.

[Low Hanging Fruit]

Odds are if they seeded.. the EARTH.. with life.. and were still around to make claim very little could be done to stop them. We are talking about an alien race that was interstellar and able to do things like.. seed whole planets with life.. several BILLION years ago and then were still aware and able to come check in and make the claim... well.. that's all folks. We would either end up enslaved, destroyed, or left to be how they see fit. When that is the case they are the law. This isn't a movie so the plot armor isn't in our favor here.

[Elegiac]

If I've learned anything from Prometheus it's that if that were true, the Earth is destined to become boring and unwatchable.

[Fincayra]

I don't think any species that has sentience should be any other things property.

Unless our sentience is basically nothing compared to theirs. An ant thinks it is king until it meets a boot.

[Shadowferal]

The bomb itself probably not, but the resulting EMP could be.

Lol...as if alien tech would need to worry about needing electricity...at all.
Think...think of an alien civilization that can pass through the heart of a star...on a whim.
You need to understand that human tech can be seen as a joke.

[ranzino]

Lol...as if alien tech would need to worry about needing electricity...at all.
Think...think of an alien civilization that can pass through the heart of a star...on a whim.
You need to understand that human tech can be seen as a joke.

travel through space and time and whatnot also requires mechanisms against radiation. EMP is a hummingbird's fart if you sail close to galactic cores and magnetars.

[Shadowferal]

Ya.
Too many can't overcome the likely wrong thinking that what applies to human should apply to alien.
Human limitations are just that; applicable to human.

[Bodakane]

Nope.

If I ate some seeds, then took a dump on your lawn, what grew from my turd would not belong to me, let alone what grew on that spot 4.5 billion years later.

[Powerogue]

I feel like we've touched on this idea a couple times before.

And I'm going with no. We've developed/ravaged this world and even if somebody came by saying they were responsible for the seed, we grew the tree. I'd just ask "hey, got any more of those seeds? We might've developed technology you hadn't thought of due a different environment, some exchange is in order."

[Nihilist74]

Unless our sentience is basically nothing compared to theirs. An ant thinks it is king until it meets a boot.

I don't think an ant has the mental capacity to know it exists. I don't think an ant has any self-awareness. An elephant, whale, dolphin, and chimp probably has some self-awareness. They are capable of realizing their suffering. Even though they are not as intelligent as humans, their freedom should be respected.
I would think an alien race who would be a lot more advanced than humans would respect that as well mainly because they would not need us for anything.

[Shadowferal]

I don't think an ant has the mental capacity to know it exists. I don't think an ant has any self-awareness.

Only an ant would know...and even then it couldn't communicate to humans since it likely couldn't grasp that we...are.

[Rustedsaint]

I would think the aliens would demand a paternity test if they came back to our planet and see the state it’s in.