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Originally posted by Mobycat:

No they aren't. A rope is not a gas, is not fluid. That's key.

If I put myself on skates, and pull on an "air rope", will I move forward? No. I can't overcome the friction of the wheels.
Open your mind man!!! Look at an air tunnel for example....the air looks like a rope coming through the turbines. Stop thinking of the rope as the actual object it is and start thinking of it more abstractly - as a stream of air for example wink