The idea of colonizing asteroids has long been a topic of fascination and speculation in science fiction and popular culture. In recent years, however, the idea of asteroid colonization has become more realistic and feasible, thanks to advances in technology and space exploration. There are many potential benefits to colonizing asteroids, and these benefits make the pursuit of asteroid colonization a worthwhile endeavor.
One of the most obvious benefits of asteroid colonization is the scientific potential. Asteroids provide a unique environment for scientific research due to their small size, low gravity, and lack of atmosphere. Research conducted in these environments could provide valuable insights related to many different academic fields. Not only that, but asteroids could also serve as stepping stones for future missions to other destinations in the solar system, such as Mars or the moons of Jupiter and Saturn.
Another benefit of asteroid colonization is the potential for economic growth and development. Natural resources mined on asteroids could create new industries and job opportunities, which would generate significant revenue for both governments and private companies. Asteroid mining could also reduce the need for resource extraction on Earth, which could help to preserve our planet’s natural environment.
In addition to economic benefits, asteroid colonization could also have important implications for the long-term survival of humanity. Asteroids could serve as potential refuge for humans in the event of a large-scale disaster on Earth, such as an asteroid impact or a nuclear war. Even if such a disaster doesn’t occur, asteroids could provide valuable information regarding the origins and evolution of the solar system, and how life emerged here in the first place.
The reading and the lecture are both about the idea of asteroids colonization. While the passage provides a more optimistic view on this, lecturer opposes such an idea as unreliable and ineffective.
Firstly, author elaborates on his idea by mentioning the potential of exploration for the research purposes. He describes various unique opportunities asteroids can provide for humanity. Lecturer is less optimistic about this because of the lack of our understanding the inner nature of these cosmic objects. Moreover, as we don’t have any evidence about conditions on asteroids, the very idea of colonizing them seems less practical.
As author continues advocating for comprehensive exploration, he also provides us with an idea about financial benefits such an endeavor could possibly provide. It’s all about natural resources asteroids are full of. But professor completely disagrees. His opinion is based upon the lack of knowledge about actual volumes of those resources available. He also questions the idea about transporting them back to Earth. While conventional means to get all the resources needed here at home is proven to be fine, there is no need to raise costs by including expenses related to transportation.
Finally, the reading is reasoning for colonization by mentioning risk minimization due to becoming a multiplanetary civilization. Again, lecturer strongly doubts this idea. Apart from small gravity and all inconveniences that migration to asteroids is full of, professor states that staying long enough in such severe environments is potentially dangerous for our survival.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 138, Rule ID: MAY_COULD_POSSIBLY[1]
Message: Use simply 'could'.
Suggestion: could
...out financial benefits such an endeavor could possibly provide. It’s all about natural resourc...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, moreover, so, while, apart from
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 2.0 12.0772626932 17% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1371.0 1373.03311258 100% => OK
No of words: 244.0 270.72406181 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.61885245902 5.08290768461 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.95227774224 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.18025128774 2.5805825403 123% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 145.348785872 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.643442622951 0.540411800872 119% => OK
syllable_count: 441.9 419.366225166 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.55342163355 116% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.23620309051 36% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 46.4641319251 49.2860985944 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.4 110.228320801 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.2666666667 21.698381199 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.46666666667 7.06452816374 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => 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: 0.159864789466 0.272083759551 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0573517142108 0.0996497079465 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0430293735326 0.0662205650399 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.110525806774 0.162205337803 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0332673952665 0.0443174109184 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.3589403974 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.31 53.8541721854 71% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.02 12.2367328918 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.8 8.42419426049 116% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 63.6247240618 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 138, Rule ID: MAY_COULD_POSSIBLY[1]
Message: Use simply 'could'.
Suggestion: could
...out financial benefits such an endeavor could possibly provide. It’s all about natural resourc...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, moreover, so, while, apart from
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 2.0 12.0772626932 17% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 30.3222958057 115% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 5.01324503311 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1371.0 1373.03311258 100% => OK
No of words: 244.0 270.72406181 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.61885245902 5.08290768461 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.95227774224 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.18025128774 2.5805825403 123% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 145.348785872 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.643442622951 0.540411800872 119% => OK
syllable_count: 441.9 419.366225166 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.55342163355 116% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.23620309051 36% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 46.4641319251 49.2860985944 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.4 110.228320801 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.2666666667 21.698381199 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.46666666667 7.06452816374 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => 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: 0.159864789466 0.272083759551 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0573517142108 0.0996497079465 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0430293735326 0.0662205650399 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.110525806774 0.162205337803 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0332673952665 0.0443174109184 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.3589403974 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.31 53.8541721854 71% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.02 12.2367328918 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.8 8.42419426049 116% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 63.6247240618 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 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.