[Math] sum of three cubes and parametric solutions

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The first paragraph in the following link asserts that the equation $x^3+y^3+z^3=2$ has finite many parametric solutions over $\mathbb{Q}$, i.e., there are finite many polynomial triples $(x(t),y(t),z(t))$ with $x(t),y(t),z(t)\in\mathbb{Q}[t]$ satisfying the equation $x^3+y^3+z^3=2$.

Question: What might be the exact evidence for such an assertion?

Edit: Complementary materials on this problem:

Segre, Beniamino. "A note on arithmetical properties of cubic surfaces." Journal of the London Mathematical Society 1.1 (1943): 24-31.

Bremner, Andrew. "On diagonal cubic surfaces." manuscripta mathematica 62.1 (1988): 21-32.

The first paper states that a genus 0 curve on such diagonal cubic surface must be the complete intersection with another surface. The second one states that a genus 0 curve corresponding to a parametric solution should have some unusual properties at infinity. Although they are quite strong confinements, it is still ambiguous that why such a statement(finite many parametric solutions) tends to be reasonable.

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Seeing that the link is to a 1996 announcement that I posted to sci.math.research, I suppose I should explain. Yes, the formulation in that announcement is not clearly stated $-$ one doesn't polish USENET posts like a published paper, and can't even edit after the fact (as is possible on mathoverflow) to correct blatant typos like the stray "+1" in the formula "(x,y,z)=(1+6t^3+1,1-6t^3,-6t^2)".
As it happens here there is a published paper that appeared only a few years later:

Elkies, Noam D.: Rational points near curves and small nonzero $|x^3-y^2$| via lattice reduction, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1838 (proceedings of ANTS-4, 2000; W.Bosma, ed.), 33-63 (arXiv:math.NT/0005139).

but the relevant section (3.2) doesn't address parametrizations of $x^3+y^3+z^3=2$. The answer to the present question is that D.Burde is basically right: the correct statement was, and still is, that all known solutions of $x^3 + y^3 + z^3 = 2$ in ${\bf Q}[t]$ come from the identity $$ (1+6t^3)^3 + (1-6t^3)^3 + (-6t^2)^3 = 2 $$ by permuting $x,y,z$ and substituting some polynomial for $t$. The substitution need not be linear, but nonlinear substitutions like $(x,y,z) = (1+6t^6, 1-6t^6, -6t^4)$ give no new $(x,y,z)$ solutions either. I don't think any method is known that would prove that there are no other nonconstant solutions, or that there's no nonconstant solution in ${\bf Q}[t]$ to $x^3+y^3+z^3=d$ unless $d$ is a cube or twice a cube. All that can be said is that if there were such a solution that had small enough degree and coefficients then it would have turned up in searches for integral solutions such as the searches described in that ANTS-4 paper and also on this page.

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