Is there life on Mars?

Who gives a sh*t! All the while there are people in the world starving TO DEATH, or 500,000 children dying EACH DAY because they don't have access to clean drinking water,  or the infant mortality rate in Angola, Sierra Leone and Afghanistan is over 15%, or the Amazon rainforest is destroyed at a rate of 6,000 sq. km a year, or at least 10,000 species go extinct on the planet every -  I am not interested if there is life on Mars, or if a particular planet is made of metal, or if we have pinpointed a "mystery cosmic radio burst", or how much Dark Matter there is in the universe. Any money spent on any of these projects is completely unnecessary until we address the basic problems of a majority of the humanity we share this planet with. 

Apparently it cost $13.5 billon using the Large Hadron Collider to discover the Higgs Boson, which itself costs $23.4 million per year in electricity alone! 'We need to advance science' and there are 'a lot of spin-off benefits to these projects' I hear the science community shout, but tell that to the 1.5 million children who are orphaned because of HIV/Aids in Africa, or the mothers whose children have died because of dirty drinking water, or the countless parents of countless babies that die each day because of no access to proper healthcare or enough food. How many meals has discovery of the Higgs Boson put in the bellies of starving children? Has the discovery of a cosmic radio burst help advance the search for a cure for Aids? Don't get me wrong, all these scientific experiments and discoveries are fascinating, but until this world and those with enough money and resources to make a difference to 80% of the worlds population actually collaborate to do so, then they are a folly, unethical and in the words of Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" about any of them.