The reading and the lecture are both about colonization on the asteroids. While the author of the reading believes that there are three main advantages of colonizing the asteroids, the lecturer disputes the claims made in the article. His position is that there are clear downsides which make the colonization unpractical.
First of all, according to the reading, the landing and taking off of spacecraft will be safer under the low gravity as asteroids are often much smaller than planets. The author suggests that we can carry more necessary equipment for colony and less fuel for returning since it costs less to travel between earth and the asteroid. This specific point is challenged by the lecturer. He mentions that the lower gravity will cause health problems among the people who take part in the colonization. In addition, he points out that the long-term colonists would suffer from losing muscle mass and bone density, in the same way that astronauts experienced during the journey of a few months.
Secondly, the author argues that the potential valuable minerals can make the asteroid colony extremely profitable. It is said that the profits, which is made from mining precious minerals and sending them back to Earth, will not only cover the costs of colonization. The lecturer, however, asserts that the exploit may not profitable as the costs of supporting a colony and of transporting the metals can be high. He goes on to say that price of the minerals may drop because there are too much resource on Earth and it is not rare anymore.
Finally, the author puts forth his idea that some of the asteroids are easy to reach, therefore, easy to colonize. He contends that many asteroids' orbits are close to Earth that the travel between earth and asteroids will be low-cost. In contrast, the lecturer's stance is that many orbits do not stay close to earth permanently. He notes that the travel between Earth and asteroids can be much farther when the paths move away from Earth. In that case, getting back will be a great challenge.
- 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 3
- 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 52
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...oids will be low-cost. In contrast, the lecturers stance is that many orbits do not stay ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, in addition, in contrast, first of all, in the same way
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 5.04856512141 238% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 12.0772626932 166% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 22.412803532 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1710.0 1373.03311258 125% => OK
No of words: 347.0 270.72406181 128% => OK
Chars per words: 4.92795389049 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31600926901 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56278776695 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 145.348785872 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.533141210375 0.540411800872 99% => OK
syllable_count: 521.1 419.366225166 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 13.0662251656 130% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.0325035346 49.2860985944 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.588235294 110.228320801 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4117647059 21.698381199 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.58823529412 7.06452816374 107% => 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: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0945263378347 0.272083759551 35% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0298515050144 0.0996497079465 30% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.031592122961 0.0662205650399 48% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0540940813038 0.162205337803 33% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0197260742262 0.0443174109184 45% => 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: 12.0 13.3589403974 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.31 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.13 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 63.6247240618 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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