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Seems to me like this leaves a lot of room to debate the meaning of "scientific paper" since there is no specification as to where this paper has to be published. My teenager could write a paper that would qualify this prop to go long.

he isn't a robot or a computer program.

No, but he could list his toy robot as a co-author on his science paper

teekar2620

from Loganville, Georgia

Their are some props I pass on because of how they are worded and some because I just do not trust the determining factor. Sorry this is another, pass.


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