Early Morning Reasoning

Isn't there some way we could fix a big rope to the ground, send a rocket dragging this in its wake to the moon, tie the rope around the moon and use this for various things. It could be handy if you wanted to control the tides, cause an eclipse, destroy the world (most likely), or even as a mode of transporting people to the moon. If you used two ropes you could quite easily build a bridge. Or so I imagine...