Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they respond to the specific points made in the reading passage.
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.
The lecture challenges the specific arguments presented in the reading passage basically by these three following points.
To work against the first argument that the low gravity asteroids maintains are often beneficial, the professor suggested that low gravity presents risks sometimes for causing people losing muscle weight and bones density. Especially in the case of long-term staying.
And second, to disapprove the thought that profitable mining businesses, the whole picture should be considered as the cost of establishing a mining industry and setting up the transport are extremely high so that can come over than the profits this will make. On the other hand, if there is some other valuable metal resource found in Earth, the supplies increase, the price reduces.
At last, for the argument that those asteroids are easy to reach. It is true in a way, but it also can be much harder to come back somehow. Those asteroids comes close to the Earth, and at some points, they move far away, even further than the distance of Mars. Thus, our people may reach easily but take a huge mount of efforts to come back home.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 146, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'asteroids'' or 'asteroid's'?
Suggestion: asteroids'; asteroid's
...much harder to come back somehow. Those asteroids comes close to the Earth, and at some p...
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Line 4, column 156, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[1]
Message: You should probably use 'come'.
Suggestion: come
...r to come back somehow. Those asteroids comes close to the Earth, and at some points,...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, second, so, thus, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 15.1003584229 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 9.8082437276 51% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 13.8261648746 43% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 11.0286738351 45% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 43.0788530466 30% => OK
Preposition: 21.0 52.1666666667 40% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 3.0 8.0752688172 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 942.0 1977.66487455 48% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 189.0 407.700716846 46% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.98412698413 4.8611393121 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.70779275107 4.48103885553 83% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47138093946 2.67179642975 92% => OK
Unique words: 128.0 212.727598566 60% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.677248677249 0.524837075471 129% => OK
syllable_count: 290.7 618.680645161 47% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 9.59856630824 42% => OK
Article: 5.0 3.08781362007 162% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 20.6003584229 44% => 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 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 68.4117887466 48.9658058833 140% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.666666667 100.406767564 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 20.6045352989 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.22222222222 5.45110844103 151% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 11.8709677419 42% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0905207610372 0.236089414692 38% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0359598273602 0.076458572812 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0324028809987 0.0737576698707 44% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0555200727957 0.150856017488 37% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0371468223407 0.0645574589148 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 11.7677419355 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 58.1214874552 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.6 10.9000537634 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.35 8.01818996416 104% => OK
difficult_words: 44.0 86.8835125448 51% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 10.002688172 150% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
More content wanted.
Minimum 250 words wanted.
Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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