Perpetual Motion Machine (other)
A perpetual motion machine is a hypothetical machine that can do work indefinitely without an energy source. Perpetual Motion Machine may also refer to: * "Perpetual Motion Machine", a song by Klaatu from the album ''Sir Army Suit'' * "Perpetual Motion Machine", a song by Modest Mouse from the album ''No One's First, and You're Next ''No One's First, and You're Next'' is an EP by American indie rock band Modest Mouse, released on August 4, 2009. It features unreleased tracks and B-sides from the band's previous two studio albums, ''Good News for People Who Love Bad News'' ...

Perpetual Motion Machine
Perpetual motion is the motion of bodies that continues forever in an unperturbed system. A perpetual motion machine is a hypothetical machine that can do work infinitely without an external energy source. This kind of machine is impossible, as it would violate either the first or second law of thermodynamics or both. These laws of thermodynamics apply regardless of the size of the system. For example, the motions and rotations of celestial bodies such as planets may appear perpetual, but are actually subject to many processes that slowly dissipate their kinetic energy, such as solar wind, interstellar medium resistance, gravitational radiation and thermal radiation, so they will not keep moving forever. Thus, machines that extract energy from finite sources will not operate indefinitely, because they are driven by the energy stored in the source, which will eventually be exhausted. A common example is devices powered by ocean currents, whose energy is ultimately derived from ...
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Sir Army Suit
''Sir Army Suit'' is the third album recorded by the Canadian rock band Klaatu. Release Despite aggressive promotion by Capitol and the band, including bandmember interviews conducted by phone with live radio shows, the album suffered mediocre sales, because of fading popular interest in the band after the 1977 rumour about the band being the Beatles recording anonymously was dispelled. With ''Sir Army Suit'', the band began to reveal their images to the public, first in the album's artwork, then in March 1979 with an animated music video depicting the musicians in caricature. The video was broadcast on 10 March 1979 on '' Don Kirshner's Rock Concert''. A newly remastered deluxe edition of the album was released on 31 October 2013 via the band's own independent record label "Klaatunes". This re-issue includes a bonus DVD containing animated music videos for "A Routine Day", "Everybody Took A Holiday", "Tokeymor Field" and "Perpetual Motion Machine", plus an hour-long intervie ...
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