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Lab Assignment 1
 * Briefly explain the focus you would have for a changecamp event, and explain why.**

A focus on which I would have a changecamp event is why the government spends millions of dollars on investigating outer space when many humans and other species living on Earth are struggling to survive. Humans have such a need to know what lies beyond Earth's atmosphere but why? Will it prevent people from getting disease, needing shelter, food and clothing. Instead of putting the money into outer space discoveries, spend the money on ensuring every person who lives on Earth has a home to live, food to eat, and clothes to wear. The focus would be to determine whether or not it matters if there are other life forms out there, if there is does it have an impact on Earth, and what are better ways that money being used for space be out to use. Some questions that would be asked are how much money exactly is being used to fund which aspects of the space program. How much money gets put to fixing satellites? For example, sending Guy Laliberte into space worth tax payers dollars? That money could be put back into schools by reinstating extra-curricular activities for the children and fixing the crumbling infrastructures of school buildings.

The government only lets us hear what they think will please taxpayers. For example, the moon telecast a few months ago had viewers sitting waiting for something to happen, only nothing happened. People don't even really care about space anymore. Some feel if something were to be discovered, they would have found it by now. So why waste our money on presumed "life" in space when the life on Earth is already found and needs help.