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1446: Landing

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{{comic
| number = 1446
| date = November 12, 2014
| title = ???
| image = ???.png
| titletext = ...
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Buckle up, boys.}}
This comic changes over time, tracking the progress of The [http://www.esa.int European Space Agency's] Rosetta Spacecraft Lander. Frames of the comic began appearing at midnight (EST) on November 12, 2014 and updated every five minutes.

==Frame by Frame Breakdown==
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!Image
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==Transcript==
00:35:00
:Three hours to separation
00:45:00
:Has anyone ever tried this before?
00:50:00
:I don't think so.
01:25:00
:Ready to begin pre-delivery burn.
02:20:00
:We are ''go'' for separation!
02:25:00
:[Spaceship]
:''Yessss!''

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1446: Landing

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Talk:1446: Landing

2014-11-12T06:45:14Z

Skylarmt:

I would bet money that this comic will have to do with the Rosetta Lander that will be landing on a comet for the first time in history this morning. Info about it at Rosetta.esa.int

[[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.173|108.162.237.173]] 05:37, 12 November 2014 (UTC)pH

Almost definitely. The URL for the image (http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_00-40-00_wmf0bPtxDN.png) contains 'landing'.

[[User:DeedleFake|DeedleFake]] ([[User talk:DeedleFake|talk]]) 05:44, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

The image changes every five minutes. (http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_00-35-00_lVC98SMY1X.png) followed by (http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_00-40-00_wmf0bPtxDN.png) followed by (http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_00-45-00_MZprhbADHL.png) then (http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_00-50-00_Z63bWhoaxd.png) (http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_00-55-00_2wCeCFN0R1.png) (http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_01-00-00_FRnIhqA5IZ.png) (http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_01-05-00_Os6SVGalch.png) (http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_01-10-00_xn4nUL9lry.png) http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_01-15-00_soIuPGfUYh.png , also I'm sorry about deleting other people's comments - firefox decided to not show the "other people have edited this" page :(. If anyone's interested, here's the command I'm using to grab the urls:
while :; do http --stream --body http://c0.xkcd.com/stream/comic/landing\?method\=EventSource | awk '/png/ { print $2 }' | perl -ne '/(r_.+png)/; print "$1\n";' ; done
where the 'http' command is from http://httpie.org - not the neatest way to do it, but it works ;)
[[User:Forkbomb|Forkbomb]] ([[User talk:Forkbomb|talk]]) 05:47, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Forkbomb, you are not supposed to delete other's comments...
Yes. It is definitely about Rosetta. The image changed at 9.35 pm PST and it says "Three hours to separation", i.e. 12.35am PST, which is exactly the time at which PHILAE is going to separate...
[http://imgur.com/fK9Ddrx image_seen]
[http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2014/11/07/rosetta-and-philae-landing-timeline/ rosetta timeline]

[[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.237|199.27.128.237]] 05:50, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Is anyone collecting URLs? I assume there's an easy automated way to do this that was used for Time. If not...

{| class="wikitable"
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|http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_01-05-00_Os6SVGalch.png
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|http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_00-10-00_fUWUYNkxwp.png
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|http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_00-15-00_74eSd3x7BQ.png
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|http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_00-20-00_UT4FKycrmC.png
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|http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_00-25-00_FX6hlfSQHR.png
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|http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_00-30-00_FjnXADopvO.png
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|http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_00-35-00_lVC98SMY1X.png
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|http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_00-40-00_wmf0bPtxDN.png
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|http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_00-45-00_MZprhbADHL.png
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|http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_00-50-00_Z63bWhoaxd.png
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|http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_00-55-00_2wCeCFN0R1.png
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|http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_01-00-00_FRnIhqA5IZ.png
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--[[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.244|108.162.219.244]] 05:56, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_00-45-00_MZprhbADHL.png) "Has anyone ever tried this before?" "No but fetishes have to start somewhere, right?" [[User:Nexxuz|Nexxuz]] ([[User talk:Nexxuz|talk]])

Probably just a mistake, but the transcript in the html source of 1446 is from 1445. --[[User:Pascal|Pascal]] ([[User talk:Pascal|talk]]) 05:58, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

It fetches things using this javascript tag..
<script type="text/javascript" src="/s/c3b919.js"></script>
I've pasted it in pastebin, can we get zealous and fetch the images before they actually show up ? :P
[http://pastebin.com/MwsahkyE link_to_javascript]
[[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.237|199.27.128.237]] 06:04, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

By the way, the current explanation says it's pinging c4.xkcd for updates.
From the javascript source, it looks like there's more than one server for this:
var SERVERS = ["http://c0.xkcd.com", "http://c1.xkcd.com", "http://c2.xkcd.com", "http://c3.xkcd.com", "http://c4.xkcd.com", "http://c5.xkcd.com", "http://c6.xkcd.com", "http://c7.xkcd.com"];
So that would be c0 to c7

Unfortuantely, as I had suggested, it seems that we cannot grab all the images beforehand :(
The javascript only fetches a json, which actually gives image name. So there's a server side script running which generates the paths to actual images. The javascript just shows it..
You can see the json [http://c4.xkcd.com/stream/comic/landing?method=EventSource here].
[[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.237|199.27.128.237]] 06:23, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Attempting to load the URL directly in Firefox results in unreadable results, but it's something like
id: acae0462-6a34-11e4-8001-002590720087
event: comic/landing
data: {"image":"r_01-25-00_ADajYkIBoR.png","spread":1}
There are several other events as well, such as 'reload' and 'heartbeat'.
[[User:DeedleFake|DeedleFake]] ([[User talk:DeedleFake|talk]]) 06:32, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

The best part of this is ninja-ing the image uploads. The xkcd servers seem to be off atomic time by around 45 seconds. [[User:Skylarmt|Skylarmt]] ([[User talk:Skylarmt|talk]]) 06:45, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

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