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Mechanical engineering student huh? Good to know he didn't attend class on day 1 of dynamics
This is a normal trajectory for college freshmen. Get introduced to a bunch of basic ideas. Spitball and try to see how you can apply them. Start running into all kinds of caveats and engineering hurdles. Go back to class. Bother the RA. Maybe actually learn more about what you're trying to accomplish. Become a better engineer.
Knowing you can't invent a perpetual motion machine is like high school level science, so being a first year college student isn't an excuse.
Hearing that you can't and understanding exactly why are two very different states of understanding.
One is simple recitation of a fact.
Yeah but you missed rule 1: Don't post your gobshite ideas on LinkedIn.
Not believing you can create a perpetual motion machine should practically be an entry requirement. If you think you can you need to go back and do high school science again.
Nah, engineering students often forget and design perpetual motion machines. Usually, they remember why that is stupid and impossible before they post it publicly where I can haunt them forever.
It should be a graduation requirement. It really should be...