You're just being very unfair and making unsubstantiated claims based on reading a web forum. I think the writer was very sincere and it is true that advances i

You're just being very unfair and making unsubstantiated claims based on reading a web forum. I think the writer was very sincere and it is true that advances in science via exploration can lead to many indirect improvements. Technology that may be developed to make, say, Mars more habitable could help on Earth as well. It is not because, as you say, he does not "give a crap about starving children." The author notes correctly that much of the problem of starving children is political; it has to do with regimes and unstable governments. It is not simply there is not enough food or technology on Earth to feed children. The world is more than is dreamt of in your web forum browsing.