Speaking of scientists...
My mum's just rung to say our Uni's Chemistry department has just exploded and as I'm 5 mins away, I can hear all the sirens.
If I'd been in work I'd have been in a building joined to that by one of those bridges that is like a corridor over the road. What ARE they called?
Anyway, there's nothing on the internet.
Can any of you lot find it?
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 13:22, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

what uni is it?

(PsychoChomp, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 13:25, Reply)

Liverpool
I'm starting to think my mum made it up.
I just listened to the headlines on the godawful station she listens to and there was nothing...
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 13:28, Reply)

as a civil engineer
I can tell you that those things are called a bridge.

edit: you could also call it a pedway, skyway, catwalk, but generally those would mean ones between skyscrapers or something
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 13:29, Reply)

Noooo, but it's a certain type
It has chairs and desks in it. It's like a room, connecting the two buildings, and it is a tunnelly tubey thing. It's not merely a bridge bridge. It's carpeted and has windows, but it's above the road.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 13:32, Reply)

coach house
no, really, just because something has rooms in it doesn't mean it's not a bridge.

In olden times big bridges in cities often had shops and stuff on them.

Bath still has some I believe.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 13:34, Reply)

the old London Bridge was very much that way

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 13:38, Reply)

indeed it was

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 13:43, Reply)

Wasn't it a favourite haunt of prozzies
and general degenerates?
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 13:48, Reply)

I dunno
my knowledge is limited to the structure

Those are some of Monty's special subjects though, so he'll tell you
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 13:51, Reply)

The whole of London
was a massive den of iniquity in those days - fucking marvellous.

Peter Ackroyd's London is a great book if you like that type of thing. The chapter on crime and punishment is astounding...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 13:55, Reply)

:(
I wanted it to have a special name.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 13:39, Reply)

not as far as I know
sorry
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 13:43, Reply)

"Root's wonderfull floating room of dreams and wonders, defying phsyics and gravity in equal messure"
But the kids at the uni will call it "Room 37-east".
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 13:45, Reply)

That's more like it!!!!
Thank you Gonz, these people have no hearts or souls.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 9 Dec 2009, 13:47, Reply)