# Raiders Of The Lost Ark Question **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 21, 2015, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-question/710464 "2015-01-21T07:44:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-question/710464/61 "2015-01-22T17:42:56Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Comic Sans? Cosmic Sands ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-question/710464/62 "2015-01-22T21:50:19Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > BTW. when the ark was on the tramp steamer, it burned off the Nazi stencil on the wooden crate. But it didn’t do so when it was packed in the US Army crate at the end of the film. So is the conclusion that the ark itself or the Jewish God was cool with the ark being in the custody of the US Army but not the Nazis? [I mentioned this in another thread so long ago](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=6218081&posted=1#post6218081), and I appear to be in an incredibly small minority, but I always thought the ending with the warehouse implied that Indy’s securing the Ark for America was behind the Allies’ victory. “An army that carries the Ark before it is invincible.” > [@Trinopus](#): > > What language is that? It doesn’t look like Hebrew. Some variety of Egyptian? > > What does it say? “All your base are belong to us!!” ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-question/710464/63 "2015-01-22T22:06:05Z")
> [@psiekier](#): > > . . . “All your base are belong to us!!” Hi, Opal! “I bring you these fifteen…” ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-question/710464/64 "2015-01-22T22:21:11Z")
> [@psiekier](#): > > [I mentioned this in another thread so long ago](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=6218081&posted=1#post6218081), and I appear to be in an incredibly small minority, but I always thought the ending with the warehouse implied that Indy’s securing the Ark for America was behind the Allies’ victory. “An army that carries the Ark before it is invincible.” Here’s how crazy I was at the time: when they showed the warehouse, I thought _How many of these bogus Arks did they manufacture, anyway?_ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-question/710464/65 "2015-01-23T00:32:38Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > _Indiana Cohen and the Lost Ark of the Covenant_ Harrison Ford’s a _quarter_ Jewish; not too shabby. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-question/710464/66 "2015-01-23T03:09:31Z")
> [@Archeonomist](#): > > No, that’s from another part of the bible. The iPhone appears in the book of Jobs. Jobs gave people the Apple, that snake. ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-question/710464/67 "2015-01-23T15:18:31Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Always? Ever notice that you never hear from the shipwrecked sailors who were carried further out to sea by dolphins? Same deal here. For some reason that made me genuinely laugh out loud, thanks! > [@psiekier](#): > > [I mentioned this in another thread so long ago](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=6218081&posted=1#post6218081), and I appear to be in an incredibly small minority, but I always thought the ending with the warehouse implied that Indy’s securing the Ark for America was behind the Allies’ victory. “An army that carries the Ark before it is invincible.” I _really_ like that theory, but then Indiana Jones was always my favourite movie hero. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-question/710464/68 "2015-01-23T15:38:43Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > I suspect that if Indy had opened up the Ark, why there’d have been two tablets in place. Nary a scratch on 'em. His face would have melted. _That’s why he screams at Marion not to look at it_. The Nazis and Belloq are guilty of hubris and arrogance in the eyes of God, so they get fried. The Ark is vengeful, to say the least. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raiders-of-the-lost-ark-question/710464.md?page=3)