Oh! Thank you so much for that, my mind figuratively went Ding! While I mentioned "primordial ooze" I was thinking of ooze as a random assortment of elements w

Oh! Thank you so much for that, my mind figuratively went Ding! While I mentioned "primordial ooze" I was thinking of ooze as a random assortment of elements we may or may not know much about as my "keep your mind open to possibilities" attitude left it vague. But by defining the Ooze(especially with probabilities of elements in the universe) you define the requirements - mainly liquid water. And then conditions by which you have to keep a blob of water together and liquid in the harshness of space are more apparent. As you say, in theory you could come up with weird physical structures to keep water liquid and together; or some other chemistry to fulfill the same roles. But in practice, probability says "Liquid Water + Gravity".