Outdoor Cats Are Using $500 Starlink Satellite Dishes as Self- Heating Beds
"The devices—developed by Elon Musk's SpaceX—have a warming
feature to prevent snow built up from disrupting the signal
“Starlink works great until the cats find out that the dish gives off a little heat on cold days,” he writes in a tweet.
Starlink is a satellite internet service created by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. It currently has more than 1,600 satellites orbiting in space, with permission from U.S. authorities to eventually launch up to 12,000, reports the Guardian’s Adam Gabbatt.
Starlink satellite dishes have a self-heating feature to melt snow, which may be why cats are drawn to it, reports the Guardian. Engineers created this feature to stop snow from interfering with the signal, but can the dish handle a pile of felines? On Twitter, Taylor says five cats snuggling on his dish interrupts his video streaming and “slows everything down.”
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