It appears that #NASA were ready to announce #Ingenuity's mishap during #Flight72 by Jan 18, the same day the flight took place. Or, a draft of something related to that event or an event during previous #Flight71 leaked to the internet and was scraped by the search engine before it was removed.
NOTE: I'm not a fan of conspiracy theories. This could have a much simpler explanation.
@65dBnoise I'm also seeing the Jan 18 date on duckduckgo, however with a different preview text that clearly mentions January 25 announcement and also contains the flight date Jan 18. Perhaps the search engines got confused?
Yes, date mixup is the "simpler explanation" I mentioned above, and there may be many others too, but the different text snippet you're getting now perplexes things.
@stim3on
Only a Quantum Intelligence can think of such conspiracies, unless ChatGPT has already reached ultimate hallucinatory enshitification 🤪
Seriously, I would very much like to know if duckduckgo uses some LLM behind the scenes, which would also explain why I see some shitty results lately, like 50 results of the same irrelevant page.
Now, searching #ThanksIngenuity on Bing actually turns up the same result as duckduckgo, including the Jan 18 date! (curiously still not the same preview text as yours. )
But even better, Bing still has the page cached (perhaps the first time Bing was actually useful 😉 )
@65dBnoise I hope we will get a n in depth blog post once everything calms down a bit.
I'm curious when they knew what happened. They likely had that broken rotor RTE image much earlier than the official update.
They only appeared on the public site when the update was out. I think the publication was artificially delayed for them.
I assume they already knew on Tuesday what happened, all their videos took time to film and edit, that's not something they can turn around in half a day.
@65dBnoise We just learned that the Ingenuity team saw the images of the damaged blades two days after the flight happened. This is also when they learned about the rotor damage.
@Undertow@stim3on
There appear to be strict instructions not to talk about details of the Mars2020 mission. Quite different from the MSL mission, where Curiosity's team is a paradigm for openness and reporting.
@65dBnoise AFAIK duckduckgo pulls it's results from Google and others. Google also has this 404 page indexed but shows January 25 as the date with the same preview text.
Unfortunately Google doesn't have the page cached either.
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