[friend_and_foe]

There was no market for a second global internet either, it already existed. If you build it they will come.

I think we see it time and time again, the steam engine, the internet, when you create something that enables radically new possibilities, people find ways to put them to profitable uses. The people inventing them have vision, they have ideas about what they could be used for, but ultimately nobody can predict how things will be used. We will probably be pleasantly surprised by the ways people are going to use mass scale space travel.

[tsimionescu]

There may well be a use case for cheap plentiful space flight. That doesn't mean that there exists a market for taking things to Mars.

[friend_and_foe]

If there are people there there will be a market there. I do expect that there will be people there within 100 years, probably sooner, if not for any reason, because a really rich guy that runs the most capable space launch company wants to make it happen.

[tsimionescu]

Rich and powerful people have wanted many things to happen throughout history. A lot of those things did not happen.

And a few dozen people living in a high tech cave is not a market.