Unless the air controller is able to recognise the problem, that is, unless she realises that the background conditions have changed, she may end up giving absurd instructions to the pilot.
Pre-war quantum electrodynamics (QED) gave absurd, infinite values for this; but the Lamb shift showed that it was both real and finite.
Rhapsodising the public parks of the French metropolis in Paris Peasant (1926), the surrealist Louis Aragon commented that "night gives these absurd places a sense of not knowing their own identity".
Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the Eurosceptic Business for Britain group, said: "This report imagines a world where every negative and false assumption held by those in favour of remaining in the EU at-all-costs is true, and then gives this absurd doomsday scenario a cost in terms of GDP.
It seems perfectly ridiculous to me too, but I think, given the absurd premises of the TSA, their conduct was totally logical.Perfectly ridiculous indeed.
On the face of it, the situation seems absurd, yet there are cultural currents afoot, beyond the book's iconic power as a social document, that give the absurd situation a rational aspect and keep it going.
Masters also test apprentices by giving them absurd instructions.
He led the conversation with a sharp intelligence, laughing at jokes, struggling to give an absurd conceit logical consistency.
There are opportunities for glorious send-up here especially when compromising photographs surface from her past and give an absurd blackmailing twist to the plot.
Laurent Fabius, France's Foreign Minister, said on public radio, "In the present context, given this absurd video that has been aired, strong emotions have been awakened in many Muslim countries".
