The AI-generated cat pictures thread
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set mode: cats = attract
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SpaceX already beams Starlink satellite internet to over 140,000 customers across 20 countries. The company is primarily focused on serving rural and remote communities around the world where internet is unreliable or completely unavailable. SpaceX operates approximately 1,944 satellites in Low Earth Orbit that directly beam internet data to customer user terminals. Overall, the company plans to launch over 12,000 satellites to provide robust internet service globally.
On New Year’s Eve, a Starlink user shared a cute photograph of five cats on a Starlink dish antenna. –“Starlink works great until the cats find out that the dish gives off a little heat on cold days,” they Tweeted. SpaceX deployed ‘Snow Melt Mode’ to the Starlink user antenna in 2020, the feature enables the dish to detect the temperature and it “produces additional heat to mitigate signal attenuation caused by snow build-up on the face of the user terminal,” a company representative said. Starlink users have shared via social media that the dish antenna does a great job at melting snow and, apparently, also at keeping cats warm!
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SpaceX Starlink Dish 'Snow Melt Mode' Warmth Attracts Cats
by Evelyn Janeidy Arevalo January 02, 2022SpaceX already beams Starlink satellite internet to over 140,000 customers across 20 countries. The company is primarily focused on serving rural and remote communities around the world where internet is unreliable or completely unavailable. SpaceX operates approximately 1,944 satellites in Low Earth Orbit that directly beam internet data to customer user terminals. Overall, the company plans to launch over 12,000 satellites to provide robust internet service globally.
On New Year’s Eve, a Starlink user shared a cute photograph of five cats on a Starlink dish antenna. –“Starlink works great until the cats find out that the dish gives off a little heat on cold days,” they Tweeted. SpaceX deployed ‘Snow Melt Mode’ to the Starlink user antenna in 2020, the feature enables the dish to detect the temperature and it “produces additional heat to mitigate signal attenuation caused by snow build-up on the face of the user terminal,” a company representative said. Starlink users have shared via social media that the dish antenna does a great job at melting snow and, apparently, also at keeping cats warm!
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Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 34,381
Total Cats: 7,504
From: Chicago. (The less-murder part.)
(cars driving up a hill)
But as a former owner, I do appreciate how the Beetles just kinda putt-putt their way up the hill with no drama. That's got to be a metaphor for something...
Unrelated, I'd completely forgotten that these were, for a brief time, a thing which existed:
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