>>21987080i saw once it's supposed to be a giant capacitor
which is literally just a rechargeable battery - AND you could literally make, at home, right now, if you get two strips of aluminum and place a thin strip of "cling wrap"/"plastic wrap" between the two, then roll all three up into a cylinder
yes it literally is that easy!
>which gives off DC power only, obviously>but could literally fuckin kill you in large quantity like a devide the size of the arc could>if you touched it's contacts>likely represented as the two separated winged figures as the (+) positive and (-) negative leads>it'd fucking KILL YOU with a huge snap of electricity - you'd fall over dead>and it would look like God punished you for touching itgold plating, silver plating - any kind of plating of otherwise shit metal was done in ancient times to trick people into thinking they bought something valuable - when it was just plated - or "gilded"
the "baghdad battery" is another example of this simple concept, which
>IFthe arc of the covenant
>is actuallya giant capacitor/battery
this would make PERFECT FUCKING SENSE when you consider "whom" we're dealing with
lol