Space exploration costs taxpayers exorbitant amount of money each year. What are the advantages and disadvantages of spending money on space exploration?
Enormous amount of taxpayers’ money is being spent on space exploration every year. There are benefits as well as drawbacks associated with space missions.
One of the main advantages of space exploration is that it has provided us with deeper insights into the universe as well as the knowledge of the world we live in. For example, scientists are able to predict weather patterns and natural disasters with the help of satellites. Also space missions help the scientists develop new scientific technologies. These latest technological innovations have been proved useful not only for astronauts but also for people living on this planet. For instance, GPS system, which is used in smart phones and tablets, is developed with the help of satellites. It is also possible to predict natural disasters with the help of satellites.
However, there are also some downsides to exploring and finding out more about the universe. One evident drawback is that it endangers the lives of astronauts. Many accidents happened in the past. For example, the Challenger space shuttle exploded within minutes of its launch. Moreover, billions of dollars are required to build spacecrafts and shuttles. And if the mission fails, the whole of that money is lost.
This is money that could have been used to reduce the sufferings of humans on earth. Millions of people still do not have enough to eat. Countless others live in refugee camps or in extreme poverty. If even a fraction of the money spent on space research is used for improving the conditions on earth, the world would be a much better place to live in.
To conclude, space research certainly enables us to learn more about the universe and because of this reason it is worth spending money on it. However, spending too much money on space research is not a worthy endeavour because there are more pressing problems on earth. Also space missions have a higher risk of failure.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: Also,
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Suggestion: Also,
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, moreover, so, still, well, for example, for instance, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 13.1623246493 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 7.85571142285 25% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 7.30460921844 68% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 24.0651302605 83% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 41.998997996 126% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1701.0 1615.20841683 105% => OK
No of words: 342.0 315.596192385 108% => OK
Chars per words: 4.97368421053 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30037696126 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66037686711 2.80592935109 95% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 176.041082164 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.526315789474 0.561755894193 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 531.9 506.74238477 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.76152304609 21% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 16.0721442886 143% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 20.2975951904 69% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.3805132571 49.4020404114 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 73.9565217391 106.682146367 69% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.8695652174 20.7667163134 72% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.82608695652 7.06120827912 54% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.38176352705 137% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.255035434074 0.244688304435 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0690191126985 0.084324248473 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0941920914877 0.0667982634062 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.145976323606 0.151304729494 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.118529899182 0.056905535591 208% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.4 13.0946893788 72% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.27 50.2224549098 114% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.8 11.3001002004 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.95 12.4159519038 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.35 8.58950901804 97% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 78.4519038076 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.1190380762 75% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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