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Outdoor Cats Are Using $500 Starlink Satellite Dishes as Self-Heating Beds
Smithsonian Magazine ^
 | 14 Jan 2022
 | Margaret Osborne
Posted on 01/15/2022 4:25:50 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
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,” 
For those concerned about cats outside in cold weather, Taylor clarifies they do have access to heated cat house. But even when temperatures reached minus 13 degrees Fahrenheit, the kitties still used the satellite dish as a $500 cat bed. “When the sun goes down, they head back to their house,”
(Excerpt) Read more at smithsonianmag.com ...
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: cats; happykitty; kittyping; purrpurrpurr; search; warmkitty
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posted on 
01/15/2022 4:25:50 PM PST
by 
DUMBGRUNT
 
To: DUMBGRUNT
    “Wekom to Schity Wok”. /southpark
In this case, Kitty Wok.
 
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posted on 
01/15/2022 4:30:17 PM PST
by 
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
 
To: DUMBGRUNT
    “I just got Starlink, but when I went onto YouTube, and all I could get was cat videos...”
 
To: DUMBGRUNT
    Elon Musk invents outdoor kitty heater. :)
 
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posted on 
01/15/2022 4:30:56 PM PST
by 
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
 
To: DUMBGRUNT
    Cats have been using technology for some time now...

Cat Taxi
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posted on 
01/15/2022 4:33:23 PM PST
by 
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
 
To: Magnum44
    Combat Simulator....
 
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posted on 
01/15/2022 4:35:16 PM PST
by 
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
 
To: DUMBGRUNT
    Hmm, pussy all over the internet....
 
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posted on 
01/15/2022 4:38:15 PM PST
by 
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
 
To: Secret Agent Man
    Not a word was said about what the frequencies are doing to the animals.
 
To: iontheball
    I dont know which frequencies Starlink uses. Or at what power.
Not all frequencies are dangerous.
Some are beneficial. I use equipment daily that put out biologically beneficial frequencies.
 
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posted on 
01/15/2022 4:42:41 PM PST
by 
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
 
To: DUMBGRUNT
    Cats Rule!
Multi-billionaires of inferior species (and dogs) just drool
 
10
posted on 
01/15/2022 4:46:48 PM PST
by 
faithhopecharity
(“Politicians are not born. They’re excreted.”  Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
 
To: DUMBGRUNT
    “Engage ‘Cat Dump Mode.’”
 
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posted on 
01/15/2022 4:47:21 PM PST
by 
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
 
To: DUMBGRUNT
    Bless their little heat-seeking kitty souls.
 
12
posted on 
01/15/2022 4:53:24 PM PST
by 
Noumenon
(Black American flag time. KTF)
 
To: DUMBGRUNT
    “Hey honey, all I’m getting on the TV is cat videos!”
 
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posted on 
01/15/2022 4:54:22 PM PST
by 
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
 
To: DUMBGRUNT
    Bring the poor kitties in the house!
 
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posted on 
01/15/2022 4:59:55 PM PST
by 
Beowulf9
 
To: Magnum44
    Many of my posts are typed by kitties.
 
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posted on 
01/15/2022 5:04:29 PM PST
by 
bgill
(Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
 
To: DUMBGRUNT
    heated cat house Am I the only one who saw this (so far, at least)?
 
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posted on 
01/15/2022 5:07:13 PM PST
by 
Hardastarboard
(Don't wish your enemy ill; plan it.  )
 
To: DUMBGRUNT
To: DUMBGRUNT; Daffynition
     “When the sun goes down, they head back to their house,”
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posted on 
01/15/2022 5:16:44 PM PST
by 
Ezekiel
("Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars.)
 
To: Ezekiel
    When the sun goes down my cats go on the prowl.
 
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posted on 
01/15/2022 5:26:15 PM PST
by 
ptsal
(Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
 
To: Secret Agent Man
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posted on 
01/15/2022 5:38:47 PM PST
by 
telescope115
(Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
 
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