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Challenges for Space Exploration
by Ann Leckie

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Question
Which quotation from the text is not an arguable claim made by the author?
Responses

I could tell you that we shouldn’t keep all our eggs in this increasingly fragile basket—one good meteor strike and we all join the non-avian dinosaurs. (paragraph 5)
I could tell you that we shouldn’t keep all our eggs in this increasingly fragile basket—one good meteor strike and we all join the non-avian dinosaurs. (paragraph 5)

And have you noticed the weather lately? (paragraph 5)
And have you noticed the weather lately? (paragraph 5)

It’s a huge, dangerous, maybe impossible project. (paragraph 9)
It’s a huge, dangerous, maybe impossible project. (paragraph 9)

Humanity was born on Earth. Are we going to stay here? I suspect—I hope—the answer is no. (paragraph 10)
Humanity was born on Earth. Are we going to stay here? I suspect—I hope—the answer is no. (paragraph 10)

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
"And have you noticed the weather lately? (paragraph 5)"

This is a rhetorical question, not an arguable claim like the other options.