> I wonder if a cable car would have been feasible.
I would think no reasonably usable cable of that total length would work. But what if you could break it up into segments, with a car releasing the cable of one segment and coasting to grasp the cable of the next segment, and some other system (possibly massively thick cables, possibly some mechanism) underlying it and supplying power to the smaller loops.
I would think no reasonably usable cable of that total length would work. But what if you could break it up into segments, with a car releasing the cable of one segment and coasting to grasp the cable of the next segment, and some other system (possibly massively thick cables, possibly some mechanism) underlying it and supplying power to the smaller loops.