Talk:1446: Landing

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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

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'.

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 ;) 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... image_seen rosetta timeline

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...

URLs
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_01-05-00_Os6SVGalch.png
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_00-10-00_fUWUYNkxwp.png
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_00-15-00_74eSd3x7BQ.png
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_00-20-00_UT4FKycrmC.png
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_00-25-00_FX6hlfSQHR.png
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_00-30-00_FjnXADopvO.png
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_00-35-00_lVC98SMY1X.png
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_00-40-00_wmf0bPtxDN.png
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_00-45-00_MZprhbADHL.png
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
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_01-20-00_jwkPNMaOSf.png
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_01-25-00_ADajYkIBoR.png
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_01-30-00_w819mZAIhE.png
https://sslimgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_01-35-00_LoEc4Q8fJF.png
https://sslimgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_01-40-00_YLKE5WV8Jw.png
https://sslimgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_01-45-00_QRP5ndlY4A.png
https://sslimgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_01-50-00_OAOxgR9UUR.png
https://sslimgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_01-55-00_KGFuQYeX1i.png
https://sslimgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_02-00-00_ov37tpe8BX.png
https://sslimgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_02-05-00_VwL8mLbfmW.png
https://sslimgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_02-10-00_GCNRyInxWI.png
https://sslimgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_02-15-00_CQwEg4oyk3.png
https://sslimgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_02-20-00_jkbJbYkLeP.png
https://sslimgs.xkcd.com/comics/landing/r_02-25-00_Pxh3HKgWnT.png

Randall switched to SSL after 1:30 but you can of course use either server.

- Marcustyphoon/108.162.219.244 07:37, 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?" Nexxuz (talk)

Probably just a mistake, but the transcript in the html source of 1446 is from 1445. --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 link_to_javascript 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 here. 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'. DeedleFake (talk) 06:32, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

By the way, that UUID (i.e. acae0462-6a34-11e4-8001-002590720087) seems to encode the time the image was uploaded as a v1 UUID. Maths22 (talk) 06:58, 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. Skylarmt (talk) 06:45, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

What are people's thoughts on changing the image label to an image number? It seems redundant to use the timestamp twice, but I copied it over from time. Davidy²²[talk] 07:06, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

A lovely explanation. Itaigreif (talk) 07:45, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Why is the comic titled "???" and not "Rosetta" or something? Smperron (talk) 08:02, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

"Rosetta" would have given the game away in the first few minutes before we could figure it out. "???" is a strange choice, though. 103.22.201.157 09:20, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

The page has changed name from "???" to "Landing" about 5AM, and title text changed from "..." to "[LIVE]". Not sure about actual times, and don't know how to rename page. Can someone else handle this? 141.101.89.217 10:12, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

At 00:03:50 the comic mentions turning on CONCERT, which I think is a typo and should be CONSERT --Pudder (talk) 10:56, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Keep uploading the images under the current naming convention, guys, I'll do a batch move to "landing[X]" later when things die down a little. Davidy²²[talk] 11:02, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Check out http://xkcd1446.org/list.json. E.g. http://xkcd1446.org/img/r_11-30-00_DEpbhsl54D.png. 141.101.105.189 11:54, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Shouldn't we write up the changing "Time until landing: [x] hours" top text in the transcripts as well? Phantom (talk) 12:39, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Oh no, not again! Petunia 12:45, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

In the transcript, added or changed text should be in bold for easy reading? also, this format reads a lot easier then the transcript. - sir KitKat - 141.101.64.137 12:57, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

I think so. After adding 'Status Report' it's even harder to read it. Graphene (talk) 13:01, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
I'm not sure... the purpose of the transcript is not to make it easier for those too lazy to compare the images and find what changed between them, but just to represent what the images contain for those that can not see them... preferably as accurately as possible, i.e. with the original formatting. 141.101.93.206 13:10, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
Maybe the transcript should move to a subpage to avoid clutter? And can we add a section for the lazy people to follow the changes without going through every image? SirKitKat (talk) 15:18, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

Did anyone notice that not all whales disappeared at 13:30? One is hidden behind the mountains in the background with a "? ->" pointing at it. I wonder if this should be included in the transcript... 141.101.105.212 14:28, 12 November 2014 (UTC)