30th August 2006, 6:29 PM
Why can't we just define planet as "the 9 things we learned about in grade school, plus whatever orbits other stars"? There's no reason we can't, it's just a word.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)