I was specifically thinking of tv and movie superheroes. But even there, Dhalsim’s yoga fire seems to have some weight behind it.
I guess it depends on how it’s formed.
I’d proffer that if the person or thing controlling the fire summons it, it’s mystical in origin and has no mass.
If the person or thing can manipulate matter to create a fire then it would have the same properties as a regular fire, which does have mass.
It has mass, sure. But enough to pick you up off the floor and send you across the room? Maybe if it is a flaming cannon ball.
That would depend a lot on velocity.
I think that the proton beams shooting out of a pulsar can destroy a solar system, but I might be blurry on these things. I’ve never actually studied cosmology or physics. Just used plasma cutters and blow torches a little.
I could buy into that explanation if Dhalsim was equally propelled in the opposite direction. But alas, he is rooted solidly. Perhaps due to the extreme power of yoga.
Oh snap, I just realized. Dhalsim. Yoga. Hot Yoga.
The origin is FAR more culturally insensitive: spicy curry breath.
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Duh, yoga focuses largely on breathing patterns. You or I can blow a pencil across a table without shifting backwards. It obviously stands to reason that a master Yogi can blow a grown adult back with sheer force of breath (flaming breath, at that) without recoiling himself.
Nah, I saw the Netflix doc. That Bikram dude wasn’t nearly as honorable as Dhalsim.
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Eh, you know what? It turns out I got my physics all screwed up. Instead of theoretical I was using imaginary.
Pulsars don’t shoot proton beams. They shoot unicorn farts.
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Speculation based on incomplete facts, but I think it was because people were using it as a means to have extramarital flings and T-Nation found itself potentially the subject of a third-party subpoena by a pissed soon-to-be-ex spouse and being dragged into a fight that was not their fight. So they gave it up as not-worth-the-trouble.
Again, speculation. But I am generally right about such things.
I do push-aways-from-the-table-you-fat-bastard.
Most difficult exercise to do.
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I’ve got one of those old-fashioned spray pumps for spreading insecticide. We can put some petrol and Ivory Snow in it, have you stand in front, I’ll spray the shit out of you, light it, and see if you are knocked back.
It’s no worse than swigging Drano, I’m sure.
I saw/heard/felt when a guy was torching through a poorly fit weldement and carelessly left his hose looped Over The Plate he was cutting through.
It was quite and explosion. Blew a hole through a 5/8" deck plate and was shatteringly loud. Dude was lucky he was shielded.
It sounds terrible when you put it like that. 
It’s only a matter of time before men are neutered.
I’d love to have been part of this study design/proposal:
- So we get them to play with the kids and we measure which part of their brains are active
- Great
- Then we measure the size of their testicles
- Grea…wait what???
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shhhh… the radical femenists will hear you 
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Doesn’t apply to me.
I spent the last 7 years teaching my kid warrior skills, eg. precision riflery, hand to hand combat, deadlifts,shaving.
Let’s do it. For science.
Already on page 24 of the release and assumption of risk docs! May need a mental competency exam.
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On the other hand, men with larger testes are presumably more likely to have toddlers in the first place?