Cats will be cats.
Looks like SpaceX's Starlink — Elon Musk's bid to establish his space company as a heavyweight internet service provider using constellations of small satellites — receiver dishes are attracting local cats on cold days. In a recent Starlink customer's tweet, we counted at least five cats cuddled up on one of the dishes, apparently to stay warm and take advantage of the heat it produces.
"Starlink works great until the cats find out that the dish gives off a little heat on cold days," Twitter user Aaron TaylorStarlink is SpaceX's internet service that uses orbital satellites, some of which recently kicked off an international incident after the Chinese space station had to — but there may be no avoiding the cute, terrestrial feline infestation as long as the dishes aren't in use.It's possible the dishes also attract other small critters, and one Reddit user even went so far as to use thermal imaging to determine why animals may congregate around their dish.
"I was checking my dish with a thermal sight and it actually looks like the whole dish, even the back side is warm,"Other users expressed concerns that birds perched on the rim of the dish might drop messes, potentially presenting performance issues. It's unclear if the intruders cause service interruptions, though.
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