Question: Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how the proposal discussed in the lecture would solve the specific challenges described in the reading passage.
The reading and the listening are both about whether maintaining a human presence on Venus would be possible. The reading proposes several problems to argue that it is impossible to maintain a human presence on it, while the lecturer counterargues. He is of the opinion that with a floating station in Venus' atmosphere, similar to ballon, the problems can be solved.
First of all, the writer of the reading proposes that humans and spacecraft would be crashed since the atmospheric pressure at Venus' surface is at least 90 times greater than the pressure at Earth's surface. This proposal was challenged by the lecturer by mentioning that the pressure at Venus's atmosphere is lower than its surface and almost equal to the pressure at Earth's surface, humans and equipment in the floating station would not be damaged by the great pressure.
Secondly, the author claims that there is no water and oxygen on Venus' surface and atmosphere. In addition, carrying water and oxygen from Earth to Venus is impractical. However, the lecturer rebuts this claim by pointing out that the materials, which could easily obtain from Venus, could be used to produce water and oxygen through chemical prosses in the floating station.
Finally, the author asserts that only a little sunlight reaches Venus surface since most of it is reflected back to space by the thick cloud. With the lack of sunlight, there would be no electricity to power machines and equipment. Nevertheless, the lecturer says that clouds are not thick in the atmosphere around the floating station. As a result, there would be considerable sunlight reaching the station. Moreover, the sunlight could be used as solar power to power that equipment and machines.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, moreover, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, while, at least, in addition, as a result, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 30.3222958057 139% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 5.01324503311 219% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1437.0 1373.03311258 105% => OK
No of words: 283.0 270.72406181 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0777385159 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10153676581 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.668422468 2.5805825403 103% => OK
Unique words: 138.0 145.348785872 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.487632508834 0.540411800872 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 439.2 419.366225166 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.9032189894 49.2860985944 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.538461538 110.228320801 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7692307692 21.698381199 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.0769230769 7.06452816374 143% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.174379223568 0.272083759551 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.066760175373 0.0996497079465 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0472443006147 0.0662205650399 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.105713338581 0.162205337803 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0321882143546 0.0443174109184 73% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 13.3589403974 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 12.2367328918 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.47 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 63.6247240618 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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