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    19 hours ago

    We do have an idea actually! We’ve run experiments where we put all the ingredients in a box and zap it, and we’ve found that it’s possible for them to start forming the compounds that form the base of life on earth.

    That was the Urey-Miller experiment in 1953, but more possibilities have been explored more recently: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt8979