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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Anonymous 0 Comments

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.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Yes, it’s possible that RNA could be randomly created in different places around the world. And while it’s not guaranteed, it’s also possible that those RNA strands could eventually lead to the creation of life.

Anonymous 0 Comments

No, because the only places where life isn’t sustainable are the places where organic stuff can’t live, eg, extremely high or low temperatures, pressure, etc. Also, life today is formed from pre existing life(I don’t remember whose theory). It just states that life exists where it is possible and if there’s no life at the “pocket” in the first place, it prolly won’t live long

Anonymous 0 Comments

Yes, it’s possible that RNA could be randomly created in different places around the world. And while it’s not guaranteed, it’s also possible that those RNA strands could eventually lead to the creation of life.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Yes, it’s possible that RNA could be randomly created in different places around the world. And while it’s not guaranteed, it’s also possible that those RNA strands could eventually lead to the creation of life.

Anonymous 0 Comments

No, because the only places where life isn’t sustainable are the places where organic stuff can’t live, eg, extremely high or low temperatures, pressure, etc. Also, life today is formed from pre existing life(I don’t remember whose theory). It just states that life exists where it is possible and if there’s no life at the “pocket” in the first place, it prolly won’t live long

Anonymous 0 Comments

No, because the only places where life isn’t sustainable are the places where organic stuff can’t live, eg, extremely high or low temperatures, pressure, etc. Also, life today is formed from pre existing life(I don’t remember whose theory). It just states that life exists where it is possible and if there’s no life at the “pocket” in the first place, it prolly won’t live long

Anonymous 0 Comments

There was no life before life, so when those chemicals formed life, they did so in a sterile world. Now, those same chemicals would be food.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Check out research/theories about “shadow biospheres” on Earth:

https://www.science.org/content/article/shadow-biosphere-might-be-hiding-strange-life-right-under-our-noses#:~:text=Biologists%20have%20proposed%20the%20existence,these%20new%20types%20of%20life.

Anonymous 0 Comments

There was no life before life, so when those chemicals formed life, they did so in a sterile world. Now, those same chemicals would be food.