/sci/ - Science & Math

>>1517199
It's sad to see how you don't notice the immense difference of the things you are comparing a planetary system to.

> but when that system has been compromised and messed around with
You seem to be unaware of history of science.

> so it no longer fits what is actually there
This makes complete nonsense! Learn what is what science does.

> and just serves to protect an outdated concept like there being a set number of planets in the solar system

That's not the point. You are missing the real reasons for the classifications. Your arguments still can be used to defend the classification of anything orbiting the Sun as planets, including asteroids and comets. Do yourself a favor and read more about our Solar System.
You can use this book in the image, for example.

Moreover, since your argument is that we shouldn't mess around with things anymore, and you claim that changing arbitrarily the limits of numbers is the issue, what makes you think that we had enough changes?
Then you are limiting the number of times we are fiddling with these concepts arbitrarily, imposing an artificial number.