I suppose you'd want the sharks to attach them to, as well. Oh, and I thought we already had lasers, just not Captain Proton-worthy ones.
I'm an engineer, not a scientist!

And as we all know, engineers always break the rules.
As I understand it, Americans are proud of being abberant, and also proud of continually trying to rewrite the world so that we'd no longer be abberant. Just look at the proliferation of our money, language, culture, yada yada.
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mudshark: Nate's just being...Nate.
Zeke: It comes
nateurally to him.
mudshark: I don't expect Nate to make sense, really -- it's just a bad idea.
Sa'ar Chasm on the 5M.net forum: Sit back, relax, and revel in the insanity.
Adam Savage: I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Crow T. Robot: Oh, stop pretending there's a plot. Don't cheapen yourself further.