In the movie “Diamonds are Forever”, James Covalent Bond is chasing some missing South African diamonds. He discovers that his nemesis Blofeld is cooking up an evil plot to use those diamonds for a big space laser that he intended to auction off. I find the plot impractical. Blofeld should have instead concentrated his criminal organization’s resources on developing diamond transistors! Had he succeeded, he might have reaped far greater profits than with some silly space laser. In this video, we look at a very hard gate.
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