TPO-52Asteroids 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.
The lecturer refutes all three arguments presented in the reading passage, which is about the asteroids- a good option for colonization by humans. The reading suggests the asteroids can accommodate humans and entice them with their benefits like Mars or the moon. However, the professor challenges all and claims that this idea is not practical and each of the assumptions had a serious downside.
To begin with, the reading posits that the low gravity of an asteroid provides easy landing and takeoff by a spaceship. The professor, on the other hand, says that humans in low gravity environment present certain health risks. Loss of muscle mass and bone density are the detrimental health problems faced by most of the astronauts. Therefore, long term colonization in asteroids is not imaginable.
Second, the passage points out that asteroids are a treasure house of raw metals like gold and platinum that seems profitable to the colonizers. The professor, in contrast, tells that additional factors like the cost to support the colony and the transport of metals to the Earth may be much high that it overweight the profit. Furthermore, there is no guarantee that the price of the precious metal in the markets will remain the same, as there is a surplus from the asteroids.
Finally, the professor added that the orbital path of asteroids is unpredictable. In fact, asteroids may come closer to the Earth in a particular place but they cannot stay close longer. As a result, the astronauts can't trust the orbital path for their colonization. This is a great disadvantage of the asteroid trip.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 216, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, furthermore, however, may, second, so, therefore, in contrast, in fact, as a result, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 30.3222958057 109% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1341.0 1373.03311258 98% => OK
No of words: 265.0 270.72406181 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.06037735849 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03470204552 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81098896358 2.5805825403 109% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 145.348785872 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.592452830189 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 407.7 419.366225166 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.0710648803 49.2860985944 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.7857142857 110.228320801 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.9285714286 21.698381199 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.35714285714 7.06452816374 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => 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: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.288561173076 0.272083759551 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0913334661064 0.0996497079465 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0550081915677 0.0662205650399 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.157677028795 0.162205337803 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0204307068369 0.0443174109184 46% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 13.3589403974 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 53.8541721854 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.2367328918 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.7 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 63.6247240618 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.