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

I cant remember the tik toker who does it, but theres this girl on tik tok whose a scientist that is actually studying exactly how organic life formed from basically just a bunch of hodge podge of chemicals.

They basically took the same basic chemicals that make up basic biological living things like some forms of bacteria and put it in a sealed environment in a lab to basically see if bacteria or any sort of life will form.

Answer 2

If rna is able to created randomly, okay but that likes having computer hardware but no software.

Life needs to be programmed into the hardware

Answer 3

I cant remember the tik toker who does it, but theres this girl on tik tok whose a scientist that is actually studying exactly how organic life formed from basically just a bunch of hodge podge of chemicals.

They basically took the same basic chemicals that make up basic biological living things like some forms of bacteria and put it in a sealed environment in a lab to basically see if bacteria or any sort of life will form.

Answer 4

If rna is able to created randomly, okay but that likes having computer hardware but no software.

Life needs to be programmed into the hardware

Answer 5

Anyone knows how hard it would be to try this out in like a vivarium ? trying to build new forms of life seems fun

Answer 6

Anyone knows how hard it would be to try this out in like a vivarium ? trying to build new forms of life seems fun

Answer 7

If rna is able to created randomly, okay but that likes having computer hardware but no software.

Life needs to be programmed into the hardware

Answer 8

Anyone knows how hard it would be to try this out in like a vivarium ? trying to build new forms of life seems fun

Answer 9

I often think that perhaps the universe is cyclical. Perhaps organic matter is more resilient at a sub atomic level that we cannot yet detect. Maybe RNA is leftover from the last big bang. They found it randomly forming on volcanic basalt glass iirc.

Answer 10

I often think that perhaps the universe is cyclical. Perhaps organic matter is more resilient at a sub atomic level that we cannot yet detect. Maybe RNA is leftover from the last big bang. They found it randomly forming on volcanic basalt glass iirc.