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

To the best of our knowledge, the process from amino acid, to RNA/DNA, to life only happened once in the 5 Billion years this planet has existed. So as for “possible”, the question is the exact same as “has life developed elsewhere in the universe”.