> in a rather tricky way. Any particularly memorable ones? From my bag: A friend's husband collared me at an all-weekend outing with some crazy contraption id

> in a rather tricky way. Any particularly memorable ones? From my bag: A friend's husband collared me at an all-weekend outing with some crazy contraption idea of lawnmower engines & generators & other junk. It was a fairly long-winded description followed by a question of "why wouldn't this work?" My reply was simply: Because the gods are out to fuck you over. He just looked into the air and said: I can accept that. The wife (MIT educated): How come when I explain the 2nd law forbids it from working, you keep asking, but when he tells you the gods are out to fuck you over, you accept it? PS. What university requires answers for such letters?