Sure, the rope could pull an evacuated chamber, inside of which another chamber could fall without much noise. (assuming you could handle the velocity and stre

Sure, the rope could pull an evacuated chamber, inside of which another chamber could fall without much noise. (assuming you could handle the velocity and stretch in that much rope. thrusters are probably easier) The longest vertical shaft you're likely to find is around 3km, which gives you a little over 20 seconds of freefall and a couple seconds of violent deceleration. But the problem is, you're dealing with acceleration squared. The Bremen tower already does almost half that time (9.3s with the slingshot), so it's probably not a big enough difference to warrant the effort and travel.