eli5 – If RNA was created by a soup of chemicals, is it possible that it’s being randomly created in pockets around the world? and could those random rna strands create life out of nowhere?

Question

Sorry If these questions are stupid, I was just randomly thinking about how rna started.

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Answer 1

Think of it as 0 and 1s floating everywhere.

can they float randomly and eventually connect to one another and form a “functioning” line of code? Yes, but the odds are ridiculously small.

Earth, when engulfed in a soup of 0 and 1 still took billions of years for life to occur.

In today’s climate, while you have much less places with the same soup and condition, can it happen? sure, but the chance is lower than a meteor hitting you on the head as you are driving.