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Arguably the most disturbing theory to explain our lack of contact from ET was put forth not by an astronomer but by psychologist Jack Baird. Working with NASA on SETI in 1982, he raised the possibility that the reason we haven’t heard from aliens is due to fundamental limits of the human mind.