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>the noise of the engine
Its a cute itty bitty little thing. The chamber pressure was only 120 PSI so in one way it can't be much louder than using a blowgun on your air compressor at home "woosh woosh". Another way to look at it is it could only blow 3500 pounds of thrust downward, so its like a VERY small jet engine. Like smaller than a business jet, and if you want you can walk around the parking lot or maybe flightline at your local airport and hear a business jet engine ten times larger up close. You won't like it but it won't kill you either. It'll hurt your hearing if you listen to it for 40 hours a week for 40 years, but you'll be fine for a couple minutes. So an engine ten times smaller would be "meh" experience.
You have to realize the ascent stage only weighs 10K pounds on the earth or a sixth that 1666 ish pounds on the moon due to lower gravity. About half the weight of the entire ascent stage was fuel so the acceleration must have been pretty brutal toward their feet, from 2 G at start to 4 G at the end.
I predict the experience would be like an unusually brutal and unusually loud roller coaster although not shockingly worse. It would be noticeably the most brutal roller coaster on the planet if they simulated it here on the Earth; but would be unlikely to kill anyone.

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I couldn't find any specific dimensions on the segments of the Apollo 17 module but the whole thing is 10'7" tall. With that in mind,…