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by blargey 551 days ago
Even if the timescales and environments conducive to the emergence of basic life exist on Earth today, I would expect any spontaneously-emerged proto-cell to almost immediately get eaten by normal microorganisms without any meaningful chance to proliferate. Reverse-chirality or no, it'd be a glorified bag of nutrients compared to the more evolved flora surrounding it.