That was such a delightful fact that I had to source it. Tragically, it is not true. Gee, K. L., Mathews, L. T., Anderson, M. C., & Hart, G. W. (2022). Saturn-

That was such a delightful fact that I had to source it. Tragically, it is not true. Gee, K. L., Mathews, L. T., Anderson, M. C., & Hart, G. W. (2022). Saturn-V sound levels: A letter to the Redditor. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152(2), 1068-1073. https://web.archive.org/web/20220831190741id_/https://asa.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1121/10.0013216 https://web.archive.org/web/20220831190741id_/https://asa.sc... "While this peak level represents acoustic amplitudes that would propagate nonlinearly to rapidly form shocks and result in perception of jet “crackle” (e.g., see Gee et al., 2016), will it melt concrete or set grass or one’s hair on fire? It will definitely not."