now that is genius!

I don't own one of these, but that sounds actually useful if for example I'm about to climb a big hill and want to pedal at a less strenuous pace (but for more time) than would be needed to overcome the slope.

Incredible comment.

Look out for v2.0 which also features a sail on the front which you blow to go faster.

I have never seen the Arabic language translation of this meme but I immediately understood it from having seen the English version.

As someone who sucks at physics, I'm convinced that Trollface has proposed so many solutions around the internet to provide free energy, but the capitalists are conspiring to sabotage him, just as they did to N.Tesla.

Yea I’m 99% sure it was drafted by AI

Likely not only drafted with AI, but only pursued because he entered the idea into ChatGPT and asked "is this a good idea?," and uncritically took ChatGPT's enthusiastic support as vindication.

Most people don't. There is just no free lunch to ever be had.

Regenerative braking was my first thought.

It's impressive that he figured out how to create a post though, considering room temp iq (during the winter in a commie block apartment, in celsius)

The Future

Tbf it wouldn't be a perpetual motion machine because batteries -- even rechargeable ones -- have a limited capacity that reduces over time because they are a chemical reaction, the components of which degrade over time.

I once had an exam question that began with the phrase "ignoring thermodynamic principles...". That question really threw me, it basically asked what would happen under XYZ situation if physics didn't exist. How the hell am I supposed to know that?

My LinkedIn feed is like 90+% AI at this point. I don't know why anyone bothers looking at the "content" on that website anymore. I only see it just incidentally on my way to the job listings and I am always shocked at how terrible it is

I was about to say, could this post possibly have any more emojis? Although, from my knowledge of existing MLM hunbots I unfortunately already know the answer lol

Yeesh... the entire thing is so much secondhand embarrassment it makes me want to delete my entire profile just for the sake of it regardless of never using the actual site

Mechanical engineering student huh?

1 week

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.

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.

wow, you did not have to call out my subnautica in-cyclops power cell recharging stations for spare cyclops batteries like that

It's a good idea, even if it can be ruled out. That person should offer more ideas. All of those Newtonian physics people never seem to offer up ideas.

You were introduced to classical mechanics at age 8?

A parody account... on LinkedIn?

I'm becoming increasingly more and more confused as to what this site's purpose is intended for... I think they lied to me in college lol

Either that, or he's not very smart, had a thought, poppet it into ChatGPT, and ChatGPT as it tends to do, affirmed his dumb idea, and he ended up asking it to make a Linkedin post for him on the idea.

I've seen similar stuff from students who think they've cracked how something works, only to be incredibly wrong, because they only know half of what they need to, but don't know enough to understand how little they know. It's part of the journey of getting sorta-good at something though.

The Law of LinkedIn:

If you think it's satire, it's probably actually just a really stupid individual.