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>>10587811
Entropy, you fucking nigger. Some amount of energy is lost as friction or in some other part of the contraption. Every system in the world is a rigged, losing game that wears itself down over time until it collapses or fizzles out.
No arrangement of parts can get around this. No Rube Goldberg clusterfuck of wheels, gears, lubricants, pumps, pistons, motors, pipes, circuits, falling objects, fluids, particles, WHATEVER will be truly perpetual. Energy will be lost from the system over time and it will eventually require maintenance from an outside force in order to continue. This is true for the entire universe. Deal with it.