>>11984746I would guess it's pretty common.
I suppose the most simple life form wouldn't require too many substances to be formed, thinking it would be more simple than even a bacteria.
The chance of it happening randomly might seem low and it is, but think that it can happen literally everywhere at any time in earth with given conditions, so it just becomes common.
We don't see it probably because of
>>11985336 but that's an interesting question indeed. I always wondered what was the most simple form of life in history as well, if we knew that we could make an estimative of how likely abiogenesis is at least.