Technological inventions now and then have positive side effects that go beyond their actual purpose. The light bulb, for example, has reduced the number of house fires caused by tipped candles. The iPod shrank messy large CD collections. And cryptocurrencies have sparked interest in retirement provision among 14-year-olds. Of course, billionaire and long-time inventor Elon Musk should not be missing in such a series. His satellite dish called “Starlink”, which is still quite unknown in this country, is intended to provide millions of people in remote places with the Internet in the long term. In the short term, however, its clearly more tangible advantage is another: the bowl with a diameter of around 50 centimeters provides five cats crouching on it with warmth, a photo taken by the Canadian shows Aaron Taylor on Twitter shared.
Usually, satellite dishes are of no interest to cats. Then came Musk. In order to guarantee a stable connection to the more than 17,000 satellites even when it rains, his model has a built-in heater to melt snow and ice. The bowl becomes a refuge for shivering cats at an uncomfortable minus 25 degrees.
It has long been known that pictures of cats are one of the oldest tricks on the Internet for paying benevolent attention to something. But this time it shouldn’t be a simple PR trick. The bowl may cope with snow and cold, but if five well-blooded creatures sit on it, the Internet “definitely slows”, as Taylor writes.
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