My question 14 years ago notwithstanding, my bet is that even if it existed, the powers were fictional beyond any “rallying the troops” type effect.
Zangwill’s Modern Electrodynamics features a problem that asks the student to find the lowest resonant frequency of the Ark of the Covenant, along with the width of said resonance peak. It’s a fun problem.
Is there a record for longest-dead zombie? Is anyone keeping track?
I’ve seen zombies from 1999. This ain’t the oldest.
Our resurrectionist’s only other post on the SDMB was back in October, when he revived an 8-year-old thread on…
wait for it…
ergot poisoning!
Wouldn’t you need some inductance to get a resonant circuit? Wait, didn’t Moses carry around a staff with a copper snake wound around it? Maybe that could fit in?
(All calculations must, of course, use the biblical value of pi - I think it is somewhere in Kings’ or Chronicles!) 
And it seems that a “big capacitor” is not necessarily the same as a “powerful capacitor.”
Which is 3, expressed to a single significant digit.
Yeah, slightly unfair, I admit it. Might pass in a joke though?
truth is not fair or unfair, it is truth.
Which is 1, expressed to a single significant digit.
Facts are neither fair nor unfair.
[Indy Hat]Archaeology is the search for fact… not truth. If it’s truth you’re looking for, Dr. Tyree’s philosophy class is right down the hall. [/Indy Hat]