starship-design: I know this is off the subject but...

[Steve VanDevender <stevev@efn.org>]

kyle writes:
 > Greetings:
 > 
 > Has anyone actually built a magnetic monopole? (I'm serious)
 > 
 > Kyle

As far as I remember from my physics classes, you can't really build
them, but there could be some left over from the Big Bang (big maybe).

If they exist, then they'd be pretty easy to detect (assuming one passed
through an appropriate detector) and would have a variety of useful
applications.