The reading and the lecture are both about establishing a settlement on asteroids. While the author of the reading argues that the asteroids are the best colonization options, even they are better than Moon and Mars, the professor disputes this claim. He states that establishing a permanent settlement on the asteroids is not practical, and each reason provided by the text has downsides. The lecturer casts doubt on the main point made in writing by providing three controversial reasons.
In the reading, the writer begins by saying that landing and taking off are much easier and safer on the asteroids due to their low gravitational force. However, the professor states that it is true that both landing and taking off are relatively easy on the asteroids, but living under the situation of low gravity increases the risk of losing muscle mass and decline in bone density, which are very dangerous to the human body. Even astronauts who live for a couple of months in spaceships lose a considerable amount of muscles and face serious health problems.
Furthermore, according to the reading passage, the asteroid has plenty of valuable metals, such as gold and platinum. The sponsors of the trips to the asteroids can make a big profit by mining these metals. On the other hand, the professor points out that supporting colonization and transporting these metals from the asteroids to Earth are so expensive and reduce the businesses' profits to a great extent. Also, if those amounts of metals enter the market, their price will not remain the same and will decline.
Finally, the writer believes that the asteroids are more reachable than Moon and Mars because some of them are very close to Earth. Not surprisingly, the professor refutes this claim by contending that the orbit of the asteroids are unusual. Although they may get close to Earth in some cases, they will go away from the Earth after; even they may travel to some distances further than the distance between Earth and Mars. Therefore, getting back from the asteroids to Earth is quite challenging.
To sum up, both the writer and the lecturer hold conflicting views on the eligibility of the astroids as the best colonization option.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, furthermore, however, if, may, so, therefore, while, such as, in some cases, it is true, to sum up, on the other hand, to a great extent
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 7.30242825607 219% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 30.3222958057 165% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1848.0 1373.03311258 135% => OK
No of words: 369.0 270.72406181 136% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0081300813 5.08290768461 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38284983912 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68416111325 2.5805825403 104% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 145.348785872 138% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.542005420054 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 565.2 419.366225166 135% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.6751556993 49.2860985944 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.5 110.228320801 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0625 21.698381199 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.75 7.06452816374 138% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.132108327443 0.272083759551 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.045379090358 0.0996497079465 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0286815624171 0.0662205650399 43% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0618659410344 0.162205337803 38% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0368438269671 0.0443174109184 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 53.8541721854 105% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.54 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 63.6247240618 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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