Look at the sefer Tiferes Yonasan from Rav Yonasan Eibshutz, Bereishis (8, 21) on וירח ה’ את ריח נחח on the Dor Haflaga that they built a tower to go to the moon. They knew that it is inhabitable, so they wanted to escape another flood through creating a tower where the air is sparse and fly from there a space ship to the moon. They did not fully understand that there will be no other flood.
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