With the re-surge in popularity of the Terminator franchise over the last few months, I know I’m not the only one who thanks my lucky stars I don’t have a homicidal cyborg trying to assassinate me.

But that doesn’t mean I don’t want a cyborg or a robot in my life period. R2-D2 from Star Wars or Cameron from The Sarah Connor Chronicles–really, either one would do.

But after all these years of movies obsessing over robots taking over humankind or being used as the family nanny, science has yielded nothing but a couple of secretaries and mall security guards that will probably be laughed out of the job market in no time. Hardly the kind of machines that could blend into society.

And yet, here we are still waiting. OMG Lists has put this and many of our other disappointments into words by creating a list of the “7 Movie Innovations Science Has Stiffed Us On.” It’s like they’ve looked into our hearts and taken notes.

Where are the real life superheroes, scientists? How come other people don’t have powers yet so that I can go around absorbing them a la Rogue or Peter Petrelli? Plus, it’s just all too convenient to think that the earth is really the only planet with organic lifeforms. Where the aliens at? (The E.T. type, not Alien vs. Predator type please.) And how come no one has created a theme park full of cloned dinosaurs using DNA obtained from mosquitoes?

I’m starting to feel like these things could be, well, impossible. To read about these and other so far absent scientific discoveries that movies have made popular, read the full list here.

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