I Made a Hundred Thousand People Lose Sleep with Just One Glass of Water

Cui Jiang, back from Harvard, opens his first livestream with a lecture on nuclear fusion.

"The deuterium in one cup of water could send a spaceship into orbit."

Comments: [What a boast] [Report him] [Is the streamer drinking nuclear waste?]

Right there on the spot, he derives the equations and projects a holographic ark reactor. The tritium pathway shines like a disco ball.

A top student at Yanda [drops his chips on the keyboard] and frantically sends five rocket gifts. The comments are still asking: [Where can I buy these effects?]

After the stream, a hundred thousand people lie awake staring at the ceiling.

Some spend all night researching "deuterium-tritium fusion," some dream that they are being stuffed into a reactor, and some email their advisors to ask, "Can our lab build one of these?"

Meanwhile, Cui Jiang is cornered by his little sister in the workshop. "You said this thing can generate electricity. Can you at least get our air conditioner running first? I'm too hot to sleep."

He falls silent.

A hundred thousand people lose sleep over a scientific revelation. He gets hit with a devastating question about the electric bill from his own little sister.