Is the temperature of a lake related to the growth of its inhabitants?

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The discussion begins with a high school student expressing excitement about joining a physics forum for help with homework and future courses. Members welcome the student warmly, engaging in light-hearted banter about favorite fish, particularly goldfish, which the student mentions having. This playful exchange evolves into a humorous initiation ritual involving "fish-whacking," where new members are jokingly "attacked" with fish as part of their welcome. The conversation shifts to the nature of the forum, highlighting its intellectual resources and the diverse expertise of its members in various fields of physics. Participants discuss the average user engagement on the forum, noting that many users join primarily for specific questions and may not return frequently. The dialogue also touches on forum mechanics, such as how to identify new posts and the role of homework helpers, emphasizing that while anyone can assist, they should avoid providing direct answers. Overall, the thread showcases a blend of humor, camaraderie, and a supportive learning environment within the physics community.
JWHooper
Hello,

It's great to be part of the physics forum. Currently, I'm a high school student, and in a physics class. Sometimes, I have a little bit of difficulties on my physics homework, and next year I'm taking somehow related physics course. I'll come in here sometimes, and post things that I find necessary.


J.
 
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Welcome, enjoy your stay. I'm sure you will get a great deal of help from these wonderful people. Oh hey, do you have a favorit fish?
 
hypatia said:
Welcome, enjoy your stay. I'm sure you will get a great deal of help from these wonderful people.
Thank you.



hypatia said:
Oh hey, do you have a favorit fish?
Well, I have few goldfishes around my house area outdoors. So, I guess goldfishes would be an answer for me. How about you?
 
Well, their is a small and ever so discreet induction to PF..whats your feelings on frozen flounder?
 
JWHooper said:
Thank you.




Well, I have few goldfishes around my house area outdoors. So, I guess goldfishes would be an answer for me. How about you?

hypatia said:
Well, their is a small and ever so discreet induction to PF..whats your feelings on frozen flounder?

O man, he has no idea what's about to hit him! Take it easy on the guy hypatia. Frozen flounder may be a little too harsh! Frozen halibut on the other hand...
 
Hi JW! You've found a great place. It's a resource to get help with your homework problems, and with your understanding of the fundamental ideas as well.

I've found that this place is frequented by smart and insightful people. Funny, too. They're also...odd.

Welcome! (Stick with the goldfish, btw)
 
G01 said:
O man, he has no idea what's about to hit him! Take it easy on the guy hypatia. Frozen flounder may be a little too harsh! Frozen halibut on the other hand...

She is taking it easy on him. She just smacked me with a frozen whale in a different thread, for some totally innocent remark about her mother's kitty. The woman is a menace to society. (But I love her anyhow.)
 
Welcome to PF!

You got REALLY lucky that you chose goldfish :biggrin:.
 
Goldfish huh?

<Whacks JWHooper with a goldfish>

*thwip thwip thwip*

Nope, that doesn't cut it.

<WHAM>

That's better, frozen flounder hits the spot, JW, you've been officially fish whacked and initiated into PF. :approve:

Who said we were odd?
 
  • #10
The tradition lives on. Don't worry. It happened to all of us (except me :biggrin:).
 
  • #11
Welcome JWH!
 
  • #12
So, what are the odds that we'll ever hear from this dude again? People who have been publicly fish-whapped have a marked tendency to vanish.
 
  • #13
Danger said:
So, what are the odds that we'll ever hear from this dude again? People who have been publicly fish-whapped have a marked tendency to vanish.
We *do* have a high mortality rate, don't we? :redface:
 
  • #14
:biggrin:
 
  • #15
I dunno, I think s/he was very clever to choose a goldfish. :biggrin:
 
  • #16
Hmmm... I just got an idea for a new Guiness Book entry. Merger of a couple of old records. Let's see how many goldfish we can stuff into a phone booth.
 
  • #17
What's up, guys? This forum looks like a great place to visit, and it seems that we have people with great sense of humor :biggrin:

I'll stick with the goldfishes, btw.
 
  • #18
OMG! They're still here!

<throws net over JWHooper>

Danger, quick, lock the door!
 
  • #19
Holy sheep****! He's still here!
Really, JW, we have some sort of curse going on. People who come into GD and get 'welcomed' have a very strong tendency to decide that they'd rather be elsewhere. Thanks for hanging in.
This really is the best site on the net for anything intellectual (or not, in my case). There's a lot of fun to be had behind the scenes (ie: here in GD), but you also have access to some of the best brains on the planet (again, not in my case). We have everything from Astronuc who is a specialist in nuclear reactor containment vessels to Fred Garvin who designs jet engines to Arildno and ZapperZ who specialize in particle physics to Moonbear who is the resident expert in reproductive biology. I'm pretty much just here for comic relief, and to occassionally kick the ass of someone who richly deserves it. :biggrin:
 
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  • #20
Thanks for welcoming! :smile:

It looks like PF has a lot of intellectual people, and it looks like a great forum. Nice meeting you, Danger, and other people that has replied to my message!
 
  • #21
Glad you survived the welcome. You're the first I've seen in a while to have done that.
 
  • #22
*click*

The door's locked! No getting away now! :biggrin: Oh, and welcome to PF.
 
  • #23
Kurdt said:
Glad you survived the welcome. You're the first I've seen in a while to have done that.

I think it was the goldfish selection. Hard to get a good K.O. with one of those.
 
  • #24
Danger said:
Holy sheep****! He's still here!
Really, JW, we have some sort of curse going on. People who come into GD and get 'welcomed' have a very strong tendency to decide that they'd rather be elsewhere. Thanks for hanging in.
This really is the best site on the net for anything intellectual (or not, in my case). There's a lot of fun to be had behind the scenes (ie: here in GD), but you also have access to some of the best brains on the planet (again, not in my case). We have everything from Astronuc who is a specialist in nuclear reactor containment vessels to Fred Garvin who designs jet engines to Arildno and ZapperZ who specialize in particle physics to Moonbear who is the resident expert in reproductive biology. I'm pretty much just here for comic relief, and to occassionally kick the ass of someone who richly deserves it. :biggrin:
Wow, I think we should make you our goodwill ambassador!

JW, I think you will fit right in!
 
  • #25
Moonbear said:
I think it was the goldfish selection. Hard to get a good K.O. with one of those.

I don't know. Some of the outdoor ones look pretty hefty to me.
 
  • #26
Kurdt said:
I don't know. Some of the outdoor ones look pretty hefty to me.
Yep, those would be the Godzilla Goldfish.
 
  • #27
JWHooper said:
Nice meeting you, Danger

Likewise, I'm sure. :wink:

I think that we should institute a new tradition around here. Someone who survives the fish-smack welcoming ceremony and continues to associate with us should get a guilded fish plaque. Now, since JW's chosen species was a goldfish, we can dispense with the guilding part and just glue it to a chunk of wood. (If it takes more than a day or so to mail it to him/her, we should probably spray on some varnish or something...)
 
  • #28
Danger said:
I think that we should institute a new tradition around here. Someone who survives the fish-smack welcoming ceremony and continues to associate with us should get a guilded fish plaque. Now, since JW's chosen species was a goldfish, we can dispense with the guilding part and just glue it to a chunk of wood. (If it takes more than a day or so to mail it to him/her, we should probably spray on some varnish or something...)
Excellent idea!

Yeah, definitely some varnish. What kind of wood? JW, do you have any wood preferences?
 
  • #29
Since it's a fish, I was thinking driftwood.
 
  • #30
Danger said:
Since it's a fish, I was thinking driftwood.

Or chipboard.
 
  • #31
:smile:
I would never have thought that someone with a name like Kurdt could be funny, but that was a stroke of brilliance.
 
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  • #32
That was pretty good, chipboard it is! :-p
 
  • #33
Hey, welcome. Yeah, technically I got by scott free without being fish-whacked.
 
  • #34
binzing said:
Hey, welcome. Yeah, technically I got by scott free without being fish-whacked.

It's never too late... :devil:
 
  • #35
eeek! San Juan River trout please (my local river, w/ world class fishing)
 
  • #36
Hey... if you can catch it, I'll smack you with it. Since I'm not allowed across the border, you have to deal with the procurement yourself.
 
  • #37
Hmm, I caught two pike last weekend up at the lake...I got a few pics of one of them...but pike have evil teeth, one of them put a hole in my neighbors finger.
 
  • #38
I used to catch pike on vacation. They certainly are nasty little things, and they fight way out of proportion to their size. Even worse than the teeth, I found, are the spines. I'm surprised that I still have all of my fingers after the number of times that I was punctured by those.
 
  • #39
Better switch to guppies then.
 
  • #40
What would you say is the average stay on PF? Or what is the average user post count? You don't often see people over 1,000 a lot of the time it's just 5' and 10's.
 
  • #41
_Mayday_ said:
What would you say is the average stay on PF? Or what is the average user post count? You don't often see people over 1,000 a lot of the time it's just 5' and 10's.

From the front page, there's an average of about 17 posts per user (1,486,992 posts, 86,665 users). Most of the time people will only join to ask a single question they can't find anywhere else on the web and thus only have a few posts to their name. I imagine for these people, they need a good grade in physics but it is not their main interest, hence they never return.

I don't know what the average period of activity is.
 
  • #42
I first came here because it was the first site to come up when I typed in "Physics Forum" and only came for a short stay, but haven't left yet...
 
  • #43
http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/9499/welcome38gk.gif
 
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  • #44
^ Erm...how?
 
  • #45
Danger said:
Likewise, I'm sure. :wink:

I think that we should institute a new tradition around here. Someone who survives the fish-smack welcoming ceremony and continues to associate with us should get a guilded fish plaque. Now, since JW's chosen species was a goldfish, we can dispense with the guilding part and just glue it to a chunk of wood. (If it takes more than a day or so to mail it to him/her, we should probably spray on some varnish or something...)

I'm a "him", just an reminder.

Hmm... I would choose a chipboard.
 
  • #46
_Mayday_ said:
^ Erm...how?

Image tags. Linking to an image hosted elsewhere.
 
  • #47
_Mayday_ said:
What would you say is the average stay on PF? Or what is the average user post count? You don't often see people over 1,000 a lot of the time it's just 5' and 10's.

Remember as well that GD posts aren't counted. That makes a tremendous difference for people who hang out here a lot.
 
  • #48
^ What a shame that is, I'm sure I would be close to 500. It's better that these posts don't count though.
 
  • #49
_Mayday_ said:
^ What a shame that is, I'm sure I would be close to 500. It's better that these posts don't count though.

I think that if we counted GD posts, some peoples post counts would be so big that they would use up all the server memory and crash PF!:rolleyes:
 
  • #50
100,000...maybe? Who has the Record for the most posts here on PF?
 

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