That's What a Science Gets for Putting Too Many Rules on a Ninja

David at the World's Fair celebrates Ninja Day with an Ask a Ninja video about physics.

Of course, what the ninja says is a lie-- Physics did the dumping, and he was all, "Please take me back, I promise to only move along geodesic paths in curved space-time from now on," but she was having none of it, so now he's out there bad-mouthing Physics on the Internet, and...

Um. Anyway, it's an amusing video.

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