It is pretty far down the list of the dangers from the current heatwave; but I have been worrying about the Deep Space Network antennas out in the desert past Barstow.
Most of the structures have very high thermal mass, but the receivers don't and can't. And the cooling systems only work so well.
Michael Busch /
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2024-07-10 15:08:31
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