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Imagine that we go to the moon, and tie one end of a rope to the surface of the moon, and then take the other end of the rope back to earth. We can't tie it down of course, becuase it would snap as the moon moves away. So instead we make the rope long enough to be a few feet off the ground, and...

Imagine a closed container (full of air) that allowed sunlight or other heat inside the bottom half, but block or reflected this heat on the top half. Would this create a consant rotation of air being heated and going up, then cooling off and falling back down?