Thats also interesting
> “But it’s something that could be trying to happen even now.”
Could be happening on earth still or other planets he meant?
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Everywhere the conditions for these processes are met – though it's unlikely it would be going very far on Earth, as this planet is already teeming with bacteria and other life, some of which is certain to find proto-lifeforms delicious.
Not even proto-lifeforms - any pile of interesting organic chemicals is going to immediately be devoured (i.e. go moldy) well before it can spontaneously assemble into anything. This is why we have fridges..
Or just oxidized by all this pesky oxygen the damn photosynthesis keeps leaking all over the place.
Earth, hence the “bacterium gobbles it up” idea.