Exploring space instead of feeding africans or poor people in general is more preferable!

In retrospect, I think I should had done more research for this but didn’t because of the question’s phrasing and the grammatical error (sorry) and emphasis on ‘africans’ which made me think you were a troll :P I will start with some short rebuttals (want to get on to closing points and I've run out of time to do this because of school so I have to go to bed) ". .. we have already planned to do so" The problem is, planned doesn’t mean it will happen, planns can be abandoned. "Okayyy, and what makes you believe that even if we stop space travels, the exploitation of these countries will end, too? " I didn’t say that exploitation would end if we stopped space travel, I was just mentioning the fact that space faring nations helped create the poverty faced by people in LEDCs such as those in Africa . Your next point seems suggests that we should travel in space because we might as well since we’re exploiting them anyway which frankly doesn't make sense when we could just stop exploting them. " . .. overpopulation, I didn"t say that the purpose of the colonization would be to solve this problem. .. .United Nations report which points out that growth will be mainly in developing countries, with more than half in Africa. .. So, this means that the population growth might be slower than before but it actually stills growing. .. A colonization could not, of course,solve this problem but it could play a major role in its confrontation. But I emphasize that this is not the main purpose of colonizing other planets. " This is contradictory to round 2 where you argued colonisation was ". .very important as we have to fid a solution to overpopulation". This is why I only which I pointed this out the issue of the overpopulation argument. Secondly, birth rate falls with greater education e. g. family planning improving reducing birth rate which links to some of my argumentd form round 2. ". .. poverty is something that can"t be solved unless there is a good governor or government. .. Poverty is not a problem to be solved just be giving some people some food. " I understand that food aid itself doesn’t stop poverty, which is why I include the phrase ‘surrounding poverty’ which means the issues which create poverty and which it creates. "BY SENDING MANYY SPACE CRAFTS THERE AND COLLECTING EVIDENCE! !" Sorry, by "are [we] alone in the universe" I assumed you were talking about intelligent life forms as normally when people say this phrase, this is what that's what they mean. This is why I mentioned the distances of other galaxies from us as there isn't any near of our nearest planets, therefore we'd have to explore deep space to attempt discover life on other planets in other galaxies which, as I said in round 2 is unlikely. Secondly, the cost would be immense to fund 'many space crafts' to collect evidence "Just preventing some deaths does not make any difference. .. New people will be born every dayand they will suffer from famine ,too. " Less people would suffer if we helped them through aid. Again, famine isn't the only reason the poor die of starvation in LEDCs. In this debate, i think we have seemed to lose touch of the fact that we are talking about our fellow human beings and referred to them as numbers: costs, number of people starving. Being in London, my school has many students from poor countries including African countries where many children starve to death, mainly Somalia so it's quite disturbing to think about how much more my friend's relatives would have suffered. Despite the fact that some of the aid was misused, which the government is attempting to eradicate. Bellow is a representation of the death toll of the 2010-2012 Somali famine: . http://news.bbcimg.co.uk... Now imagine how these people died . https://www.google.co.uk... This is why we must spend on aid to prevent deaths in the future.