Why India's Mars mission is so cheap – and thrilling

Re:Why India's Mars mission is so cheap – and thrilling by kaonashi on Sunday September 28, 2014 @10:20PM (#8381452)

That depends entirely on how much excess capacity there is, it's not per se inflationary. If you mobilize idle capacity with new money, then you're increasing the size of the pie (more money chasing after more goods).

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Re:Why India's Mars mission is so cheap – and thrilling by logicchains on Sunday September 28, 2014 @11:50PM (#8381626)

That's why I said "all other things being equal". In the general case is which there's no excess capacity, which can be assumed if the economy isn't undergoing a recession or the like, it's inflationary.

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Re:Why India's Mars mission is so cheap – and thrilling by kaonashi on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @03:07PM (#8396934)

It doesn't even have to be recession. Slow growth and high unemployment (such as what we're seeing right now) also indicate that there's plenty of room to mobilize idle capacity.

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