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
From the reading passage, it proposes that asteroids are a planet that better than Mars or Moon to set up a colony for human to live or work. How ever the lecturer proposes counterpoint to revert the outcome that the reading passage provided.
To begin with, the reading mentioned about the low gravity that unique to asteroid due to the size of the it, thus the spacecraft would be easy to take on and take off and the cost of fuel would be less for the trip back to earth. however, the lecturer make the point of many risks that could happened such as health issues. Losing bone density and muscle mass as a long-term condition would not benefit human. living in the low gravity environment could cause the significant health issues that we could not miss it.
Moving on, the reading passage propose that human can set up a mining company and get profit from the gold and platinum. however, the lecturer brings about the cost of supporting the mining group could be a huge problem. Also the transporting method to taking the precious minerals back to earth, thus the profit would be less than thought.
Finally, the reading passage proposed that the asteroid are closer to earth, so it would be easy to get back to earth. The lecturer mentioned about that the orbit path is unpredictable, probably the distance between asteroid and earth are much far away.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, however, if, so, thus, such as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 22.412803532 62% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1137.0 1373.03311258 83% => OK
No of words: 240.0 270.72406181 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.7375 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.93597934253 4.04702891845 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.34929067309 2.5805825403 91% => OK
Unique words: 127.0 145.348785872 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.529166666667 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 342.0 419.366225166 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.7505952008 49.2860985944 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.363636364 110.228320801 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8181818182 21.698381199 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.45454545455 7.06452816374 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 4.19205298013 143% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 4.45695364238 45% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.100731193905 0.272083759551 37% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0415785549557 0.0996497079465 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0509876486904 0.0662205650399 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.07092990193 0.162205337803 44% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.039458937326 0.0443174109184 89% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 13.3589403974 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 53.8541721854 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.0289183223 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.21 12.2367328918 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.97 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 50.0 63.6247240618 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 10.7273730684 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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