This reminds me. There was a paper published a couple of years ago and posted here on HN that actually calculated the probability of life aminoacid-based life emerging. Based on the complexity of the chain needed to start replicating.
The conclusion was that it was vanishingly small in the observable universe but only close to 0 in the full universe.
I've since tried to find it without luck. Does anybody here know where I can read it or remember the article I'm talking about?
I've since tried to find it without luck. Does anybody here know where I can read it or remember the article I'm talking about?