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2021-07-08 // day precision

Alien technology still needs SAM registration

Posted by Dan Cary

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Also the currency isn’t in CONIT. 🤦🏼‍♂️
Excited scientist: “My face when the aliens invade and we want to buy there technology but they won’t get registered in SAM.”
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An alien-invasion scene makes registration and contracting-system currency support the obstacles to buying extraterrestrial technology. A comment adds Section 889 certification. The joke exaggerates familiar administrative friction. SOURCE DISCUSSION — transcribed original comments 2021-07-08 — Andy Knott: And they haven’t done their 889 certification! Coverage: One displayed comment captured. Thread grouping follows source thread-root links; unknown immediate reply parents are not inferred. Dates preserve the displayed day, with timezone unknown. The heading, alt text and opening historical explanation are AI-assisted editorial interpretation. The original caption, preserved image renditions and transcribed discussion are source material. Public images are metadata-stripped display derivatives of Facebook-served files; the original upload files and edit history were not established.

Topics: Early Years, July 2021, SAM, CONIT, Section-889, contracting-technology, early-years