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?

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

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Possibly yes. Likely? Probably not. The reason it is unlikely is because it is apparently rare. In what we’ve catalogued of the universe so far, small as it is, we haven’t found much. We also haven’t created any in the lab spontaneously; we can engineer the rna by putting the pieces together, but it’s not like we can make a “soup” and just wait.