Asteroids are large space objects made of rock and ice. There are hundreds of thousands of asteroids in our solar system. Though we often hear ideas about establishing colonies of humans to live and work on our Moon or our neighboring planet, Mars, some think that sending people to an asteroid would actually be the best colonization option for a number of reasons Low Gravity To begin with, asteroids are often much smaller than planets, so they have lower gravity.
When landing a spaceship, the craft would not be pulled as strongly or as forcefully toward the asteroid's surface, making the landing safer than landing on the Moon or Mars; it would also allow a spacecraft to carry much more equipment needed to set up the colony. It would also be easier for the spacecraft to take off again, so the spaceship would need to carry considerably less fuel for the trip back to Earth. Mining Valuable Metals Next some asteroids are rich in valuable elements and precious metals that are relatively rare on Earth, such as gold and platinum.
An asteroid colony would be extremely profitable and a good source of these raw materials. The colonists or businesses sponsoring them could more than pay for the cost of their support by mining minerals and sending them back to Earth. Easy to Reach Finally, asteroids are a good option for colonization because some of them would be very easy to reach. There are a number of asteroids that periodically come within or near Earth's orbit Some of them actually get closer to Earth than our Moon. So these asteroids would be much easier and more affordable to get to and get back from than a planet like Mars, which would require a two-year trip in each direction.
Both the reading and lecture are about traveling and living on asteroids. The reading passage provides three hypotheses regarding the possibility of colonizing on asteroids. However, the lecturer disagrees and challenges each of these theories.
To begin with, the passage claims that asteroids are much smaller than planets, which means that they have lower gravity; hence, humans can go and colonize them. Nevertheless, the lecturer contradicts this idea by pointing out that colonizing asteroids is not practical at all. Furthermore, he states that although they have lower gravity, they are harmful to our health, that is, colonizing asteroids causes some dangerous problems, such as bone-density problems and muscle loss.
Secondly, the reading passage mentions that landing on asteroids is safer than landing on the Moon or Mars. This notion is substantiated by the fact that we can take more equipment with ourselves on the spacecraft, and it is easier to take off again, with the result that the spacecraft uses less fuel. Yet, the lecturer challenges the argument found in the reading passage by revealing that it seems right, but it will cost a fortune leading us to make less profit. Moreover, he notes that there is no guarantee to come back to Earth, and if we can bring a lot of precious stones with us, they will lose their worth because of their abundance.
The third and last point found in the article is that bringing precious stones from asteroids is so profitable. In the article, it is noted that because some asteroids are close to Earth, we can reach them easily. On the other hand, the lecturer rebuts this theory by explaining that although it seems we can reach them easily, it is difficult for us to return to Earth easily. Moreover, in contrast to the passage, he asserts that it is not close to Earth all the time, i.e., it is not close to Earth all the time, which means that sometimes are closer and sometimes are farther; thus, if we can reach them, the far distance from Earth can be a challenge for us.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, furthermore, hence, however, if, moreover, nevertheless, regarding, second, secondly, so, third, thus, in contrast, such as, in contrast to, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 10.4613686534 182% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 12.0772626932 141% => OK
Pronoun: 51.0 22.412803532 228% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1695.0 1373.03311258 123% => OK
No of words: 348.0 270.72406181 129% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87068965517 5.08290768461 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31911543099 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58139238964 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 145.348785872 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.51724137931 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 512.1 419.366225166 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 3.25607064018 338% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.029575213 49.2860985944 116% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.071428571 110.228320801 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.8571428571 21.698381199 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.7142857143 7.06452816374 180% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.109005722136 0.272083759551 40% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.041680195839 0.0996497079465 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0363883605783 0.0662205650399 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0626509747346 0.162205337803 39% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0360880030939 0.0443174109184 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 13.3589403974 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 53.8541721854 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.26 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.28 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 63.6247240618 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => 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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