<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 at 11:05, mayqel qunen'oS <<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">> (This means the bridge might even be a</div><div dir="auto">> mile long and not connect the two</div><div dir="auto">> edges of the river, but still cross it).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">How is this possible? How can a bridge cross a river but not connect its' two banks? Is it collapsed on each end, with just a middle part levitating over the river?</div></div>
</blockquote></div><div><br></div>Consider a bridge over a high canyon, with a river far down below. The bridge crosses the river, but does not technically join its banks together (as the banks are still separated from the ends of the bridge by a steep climb).<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div>