We have a sample size of one but my take on life from that sample is: Life pops up really fast. Going from Prokaryotic to eukaryotic takes a really - almost w

We have a sample size of one but my take on life from that sample is: Life pops up really fast. Going from Prokaryotic to eukaryotic takes a really - almost weirdly - long time. Presumably going from eukaryotic to something we can easily recognize as intelligent takes an even longer, which again is weird, amount of time. From that I'd expect life to be common and intelligent life that's reachable to us - that is on a time frame / distance that is reachable for humanity as a species - to be either non-existent or rare as hens teeth. It may be common in terms of the universe though just not knowable.