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 article proposes that asteroid colonization is a profitable and feasiable option rather than Moon or Mars. It provides three reasons to illustrate this idea. The professor, however, does not believe so and states that asteroid colonization is not practical and challenges all the author's reasons by explaining the downside of those reasons.
First, the article avers that asteroids have low gravity which makes the creft landing easier, and with this condition crafts can carry more equipment to set a colony. On the other hand, the lecturer opposes this notion by saying that though this low gravity help craft landing, it has a risk fo rcolonist. People in this circumstance will lose their muscle weight and bone density. Spending several months lead to this health problem. If they want to stay longer time it will be a serious prohibiting helath risk for them.
Second, the reading material claims that some asteroids have some invaluable and precious metals such as gold and platinum. It adds that mining them will be profitable and colonist or theri sponsor will pay more for this support. Conversely, the speaker refutes this point and asserts that the writer story is not the whole picture and it has more factors. He asserts mining of these meatls has cost and bringing back them to earth will be expensive which adds to finish product cost. The speaker adds it does not guarantee that the price of these precious metals stay high if they bring from asteroid, their supply goes up then the price of them will be goes down logically.
Third, the lecture states that some of these asteroids comes to Earth orbit and very clsse, which makes going into and coming back convenient. Controversially, the professor posits that those asteroids have an unusual orbits and they come close to earth but they move away and will not stay there and go away. In this case going into them may be easy but coming back from them is so hard and a big challenge.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, conversely, first, however, if, may, second, so, then, third, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 5.04856512141 178% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 7.30242825607 288% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 22.412803532 192% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 25.0 30.3222958057 82% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1625.0 1373.03311258 118% => OK
No of words: 335.0 270.72406181 124% => OK
Chars per words: 4.85074626866 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27820116611 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.39192597473 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 145.348785872 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.561194029851 0.540411800872 104% => OK
syllable_count: 483.3 419.366225166 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.3806642648 49.2860985944 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.5625 110.228320801 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.9375 21.698381199 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.8125 7.06452816374 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0711402500294 0.272083759551 26% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0261260812651 0.0996497079465 26% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0285041850638 0.0662205650399 43% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0484433185601 0.162205337803 30% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.020794019082 0.0443174109184 47% => 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: 68.1 53.8541721854 126% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.0289183223 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.85 12.2367328918 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.3 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 63.6247240618 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => 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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