Why would Nimrod Want a Rocket?

I actually got some feedback in France on this : if the tower was a rocket, what for? To combat the UFOs on the Moon?

Nope.

I simply take it Nimrod may have been a little less bad at cosmology than trying to reach God's heaven above the stars by a skyscraper. Nevertheless, he distrusted God's promise or supported people who did (arguably this distrust may have happened when seas rose drastically during Younger Dryas - after the Flood, but before God set a "fixed limit" or rather when He did so, as the psalmist said).

And the idea of saving mankind from a disaster by rockets has come back. 1970, Christin and Mézières wrote The City of Shifting Waters. They actually dream of a space time machine rather than a rocket. Recently, there was a film, 2014 or sth, with a theme "earth saw us born, it need not see us die" or "earth was our cradle, it need not be our grave". This time, it was about rockets.

So, obviously God was safe from Floods where He was sending the Flood from, Nimrod wanted to get there. Exactly the idea expressed by the Church Fathers, just that I think he may have been too smart for a skyscraper. By now, Voyager 1 and 2 still not arriving at fix stars after 50 years or so, I'd say it would have been smarter not to try even rockets either. As to the term, "if a rocket, why does it say tower", any new discovery and any new invention is named after things already known. Rocket is an Italian word for bobbin, which is a bit how a firework rocket looks. Nimrod having no firework rockets before him, would have called it a tower, unless his rocket was even the first attempt at a tower. A wording was chosen which would be remembered and partly understood after centuries when the rocket project was forgotten totally among ordinary people./HGL