[Video] Q47: The central claim of passage 2 is that space mining has positive potential but

Answer Choices

  • it will end up encouraging humanity’s reckless treatment of the environment.

  • its effects should be thoughtfully considered before it becomes a reality.

  • such potential may not include replenishing key resources that are disappearing on Earth.

  • experts disagree about the commercial viability of the discoveries it could yield.

Explanation for Question 47 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 1

Okay. So what 47 is essentially asking is the main idea of passage to 2 remember passage two was all talking about the caveats of space mining 3 and the possible negative effect for the possible considerations that we need to think 4 about when we're space mining. So, so what is it? 5 So the central claim of passage too, is that space mining has positive potential, 6 but a, it will end up encouraging reckless rebuild the environment. 7 No, he didn't actually say if anything would happen to the environment, 8 because guess what space is not connected to earth environment B its affects 9 should be thoughtfully considered before it becomes reality. 10 Yes. That's all he's asking people to do is to consider, 11 instead of going right into it, like paragraph like passage, 12 one guy, we need to start considering what possibly could happen, 13 not just on earth, but what is the stuff that we are going to 14 get from space even useful? 15 Is it even lucrative? Can we even scale it up? 16 Things like that. It's not all based on the environment. 17 It's just asking ourselves other questions instead of just like going right into this 18 plan of just mining space without even any other considerations. 19 So that's really what they're asking here. So it's going be B why is 20 it not C and D? So CSS of potential may not include your punishing 21 keywords resources that disappear. It doesn't even really meant if you're trying to pick 22 the most general answer here, right? Because there's ...

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