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Putin Jumps Into the Race to Build a Hyperloop

  • Russia sees transonic technology upending freight industry
  • Moscow studies using Hyperloops to link airports to downtown
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A brash dot-com millionaire showed up in Russia shopping for a rocket at the start of Vladimir Putin’s presidency, only to be derided as a crank by smug apparatchiks who plied him with vodka before waving him away.

Nobody in Moscow is laughing at Elon Musk any more.