This is entirely consistent with the great filter.
> 1. it extremely unlikely for any species, however curious, to ever make it out of their local gravity well
ie. it is more likely that they would go extinct before making it out of their local gravity well, which means the discovery of other life local to us would make it substantially more likely that filter preventing us from attaining interstellar travel is ahead of us.
> 1. it extremely unlikely for any species, however curious, to ever make it out of their local gravity well
ie. it is more likely that they would go extinct before making it out of their local gravity well, which means the discovery of other life local to us would make it substantially more likely that filter preventing us from attaining interstellar travel is ahead of us.