> "Samuel Benge" <stb### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>> Has anyone ever built one of these in RL?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna_Machine
> "It is said by Sassoon and Dale that a nuclear reactor used to power the manna
> machine was stored in the Ark of the Covenant."
>
> It sounds dangerous to be playing with radiactive materials... like piling them
> up to get a larger reaction. It was said that Moses' face was tanned (highly
> bronzed) after speaking to God... I hope that thing was made out of a very dense
> metal, like lead, or gold....
>

About 20 to 30 years ago, it seems that some students started to build a 
scaled down reproduction of the Ark by following the description from 
the bible.

BEFORE it was finished, they where forced to stop. It apparently 
accumulated/generated some rather dangerous electric potential.

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