1446: Landing - Revision history

DollarStoreBa'al: cat

2026-03-31T17:01:20Z

cat

Maxcodes: Removed incomplete, as I updated the animation with the last 5 frames.

2026-01-08T21:41:33Z

Removed incomplete, as I updated the animation with the last 5 frames.

Maxcodes: Undo revision 403177 by Maxcodes (talk). Realized there were more frames.

2026-01-08T20:50:39Z

Undo revision 403177 by Maxcodes (talk). Realized there were more frames.

Maxcodes: Added the final frame to the file, removed incomplete

2026-01-08T20:48:07Z

Added the final frame to the file, removed incomplete

FaviFake: added Category:Comics edited after their publication using HotCat

2025-04-10T16:32:19Z

added Category:Comics edited after their publication using HotCat

FaviFake: {{incomplete|Update the page to the newest frame currently on xkcd.com/1446. (Need to update the explanation, #Transcript, 1446: Landing/Transcript, and possibly the GIF used above.)

2025-04-10T16:29:10Z

{{incomplete|Update the page to the newest frame currently on xkcd.com/1446. (Need to update the explanation, #Transcript, 1446: Landing/Transcript, and possibly the GIF used above.)

172.70.58.6: Undo revision 362014 by 162.158.193.151 (talk) Edit properly!

2025-01-14T00:41:33Z

Undo revision 362014 by 162.158.193.151 (talk) Edit properly!

162.158.193.151 at 00:14, 14 January 2025

2025-01-14T00:14:57Z

B for brain: /* Trivia */

2025-01-01T13:53:00Z

‎Trivia

172.69.194.18: Undo revision 357275 by 172.71.211.20 (talk) Not really...

2024-11-19T10:21:23Z

Undo revision 357275 by 172.71.211.20 (talk) Not really...

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 ==Explanation==
-{{incomplete|Update the page to the newest frame currently on xkcd.com/1446. (Need to update the explanation, [[#Transcript]], [[1446: Landing/Transcript]], and possibly the GIF used above.) If you have no idea what I'm talking about, [[1446: Landing/Frame by Frame Breakdown|click here]] to learn more.}}This comic changed over time during 12 hours and 15 minutes starting at 0:00 EST (when the comic normally is released) posting 143 pictures that tracked the progress of the {{w|Philae (spacecraft)|Philae}} lander separating from the {{w|European Space Agency}}'s {{w|Rosetta (spacecraft)|Rosetta}} probe to land on comet {{w|67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko}}. More info can be found here: [https://rosetta.esa.int rosetta.esa.int].
+This comic changed over time during 12 hours and 15 minutes starting at 0:00 EST (when the comic normally is released) posting 143 pictures that tracked the progress of the {{w|Philae (spacecraft)|Philae}} lander separating from the {{w|European Space Agency}}'s {{w|Rosetta (spacecraft)|Rosetta}} probe to land on comet {{w|67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko}}. More info can be found here: [https://rosetta.esa.int rosetta.esa.int].
 The comic presents the imagined anthropomorphic "thoughts" of the Rosetta spacecraft and the Philae lander (and occasionally other parties) during the hours approaching separation from each other, approach to the comet and finally the apparently successful landing on the comet.

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 ==Explanation==
-This comic changed over time during 12 hours and 15 minutes starting at 0:00 EST (when the comic normally is released) posting 143 pictures that tracked the progress of the {{w|Philae (spacecraft)|Philae}} lander separating from the {{w|European Space Agency}}'s {{w|Rosetta (spacecraft)|Rosetta}} probe to land on comet {{w|67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko}}. More info can be found here: [https://rosetta.esa.int rosetta.esa.int].
+{{incomplete|Update the page to the newest frame currently on xkcd.com/1446. (Need to update the explanation, [[#Transcript]], [[1446: Landing/Transcript]], and possibly the GIF used above.) If you have no idea what I'm talking about, [[1446: Landing/Frame by Frame Breakdown|click here]] to learn more.}}This comic changed over time during 12 hours and 15 minutes starting at 0:00 EST (when the comic normally is released) posting 143 pictures that tracked the progress of the {{w|Philae (spacecraft)|Philae}} lander separating from the {{w|European Space Agency}}'s {{w|Rosetta (spacecraft)|Rosetta}} probe to land on comet {{w|67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko}}. More info can be found here: [https://rosetta.esa.int rosetta.esa.int].
 The comic presents the imagined anthropomorphic "thoughts" of the Rosetta spacecraft and the Philae lander (and occasionally other parties) during the hours approaching separation from each other, approach to the comet and finally the apparently successful landing on the comet.

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 ==Explanation==
-{{incomplete|Update the page to the newest frame currently on xkcd.com/1446. (Need to update the explanation, [[#Transcript]], [[1446: Landing/Transcript]], and possibly the GIF used above.) If you have no idea what I'm talking about, [[1446: Landing/Frame by Frame Breakdown|click here]] to learn more.}}This comic changed over time during 12 hours and 15 minutes starting at 0:00 EST (when the comic normally is released) posting 143 pictures that tracked the progress of the {{w|Philae (spacecraft)|Philae}} lander separating from the {{w|European Space Agency}}'s {{w|Rosetta (spacecraft)|Rosetta}} probe to land on comet {{w|67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko}}. More info can be found here: [https://rosetta.esa.int rosetta.esa.int].
+This comic changed over time during 12 hours and 15 minutes starting at 0:00 EST (when the comic normally is released) posting 143 pictures that tracked the progress of the {{w|Philae (spacecraft)|Philae}} lander separating from the {{w|European Space Agency}}'s {{w|Rosetta (spacecraft)|Rosetta}} probe to land on comet {{w|67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko}}. More info can be found here: [https://rosetta.esa.int rosetta.esa.int].
 The comic presents the imagined anthropomorphic "thoughts" of the Rosetta spacecraft and the Philae lander (and occasionally other parties) during the hours approaching separation from each other, approach to the comet and finally the apparently successful landing on the comet.

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-*Frames of the comic started appearing November 12, 2014 and were being updated every five minutes. The collection of images creates a {{w|flip book}} that is displayed above.
+Frames of the comic started appearing on November 12, 2014 and were updated every five minutes. The collection of images forms a {{w|flip book}} that is displayed above.
 ==Explanation==
-This comic changed over time during 12 hours and 15 minutes starting at 0:00 EST (when the comic normally is released) posting 143 pictures that tracked the progress of the {{w|Philae (spacecraft)|Philae}} lander separating from the {{w|European Space Agency}}'s {{w|Rosetta (spacecraft)|Rosetta}} probe to land on comet {{w|67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko}}. More info can be found here: [https://rosetta.esa.int rosetta.esa.int].
+{{incomplete|Update the page to the newest frame currently on xkcd.com/1446. (Need to update the explanation, [[#Transcript]], [[1446: Landing/Transcript]], and possibly the GIF used above.) If you have no idea what I'm talking about, [[1446: Landing/Frame by Frame Breakdown|click here]] to learn more.}}This comic changed over time during 12 hours and 15 minutes starting at 0:00 EST (when the comic normally is released) posting 143 pictures that tracked the progress of the {{w|Philae (spacecraft)|Philae}} lander separating from the {{w|European Space Agency}}'s {{w|Rosetta (spacecraft)|Rosetta}} probe to land on comet {{w|67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko}}. More info can be found here: [https://rosetta.esa.int rosetta.esa.int].
 The comic presents the imagined anthropomorphic "thoughts" of the Rosetta spacecraft and the Philae lander (and occasionally other parties) during the hours approaching separation from each other, approach to the comet and finally the apparently successful landing on the comet.
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 ==Trivia==
-*There appears to be a brief error between 02:35 and 02:45, where the time until lander separation is shown as 1 hour, counting down to 50 minutes, before being corrected to 75 minutes at 02:50.
+*There appears to be a brief error between 02:35 and 02:45, where the time until lander separation is shown as 1 hour, counting down to 50 minutes, before being corrected to 75 minutes at 02:50. Since this was supposed to be during the "non-live" section before Randall got up (and got live) it is not sure whether this was a "real" mistake, or if he was up anyway, and corrected this timing error when he discovered the plans had change during the approach flight.
 *Later after the initial release of this comic Randall added a link to this page. It's the first time this wiki is mentioned at xkcd itself and it's viewable in the HTML-source or here: [https://xkcd.com/1446/info.0.json https://xkcd.com/1446/info.0.json]. The text is: ''"A very thorough explanation of the comic is available here: http:\n\nwww.explainxkcd.com\nwiki\nindex.php\n1446:_Landing"''.
 *A similar idea was used in [[1190: Time]].

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	This comic changed over time during 12 hours and 15 minutes starting at 0:00 EST (when the comic normally is released) posting 143 pictures that tracked the progress of the {{w\|Philae (spacecraft)\|Philae}} lander separating from the {{w\|European Space Agency}}'s {{w\|Rosetta (spacecraft)\|Rosetta}} probe to land on comet {{w\|67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko}}. More info can be found here: [https://rosetta.esa.int rosetta.esa.int].		This comic changed over time during 12 hours and 15 minutes starting at 0:00 EST (when the comic normally is released) posting 143 pictures that tracked the progress of the {{w\|Philae (spacecraft)\|Philae}} lander separating from the {{w\|European Space Agency}}'s {{w\|Rosetta (spacecraft)\|Rosetta}} probe to land on comet {{w\|67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko}}. More info can be found here: [https://rosetta.esa.int rosetta.esa.int].

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		+	is 7th animated comic.
		+
	This comic changed over time during 12 hours and 15 minutes starting at 0:00 EST (when the comic normally is released) posting 143 pictures that tracked the progress of the {{w\|Philae (spacecraft)\|Philae}} lander separating from the {{w\|European Space Agency}}'s {{w\|Rosetta (spacecraft)\|Rosetta}} probe to land on comet {{w\|67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko}}. More info can be found here: [https://rosetta.esa.int rosetta.esa.int].		This comic changed over time during 12 hours and 15 minutes starting at 0:00 EST (when the comic normally is released) posting 143 pictures that tracked the progress of the {{w\|Philae (spacecraft)\|Philae}} lander separating from the {{w\|European Space Agency}}'s {{w\|Rosetta (spacecraft)\|Rosetta}} probe to land on comet {{w\|67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko}}. More info can be found here: [https://rosetta.esa.int rosetta.esa.int].

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 **Since this was supposed to be during the "non-live" section before Randall got up (and got live) it is not sure whether this was a "real" mistake, or if he was up anyway, and corrected this timing error when he discovered the plans had change during the approach flight.
 *Later after the initial release of this comic Randall added a link to this page. It's the first time this wiki is mentioned at xkcd itself and it's viewable in the HTML-source or here: [https://xkcd.com/1446/info.0.json https://xkcd.com/1446/info.0.json]. The text is: ''"A very thorough explanation of the comic is available here: http:\n\nwww.explainxkcd.com\nwiki\nindex.php\n1446:_Landing"''.
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