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The hidden engineering of airport runways: Engineered Materials Arresting Systems
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this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2026
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Same video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/practical-engineering-the-hidden-engineering-of-runways/ (16m36s, presumably because it skips a sponsored segment)
I'm actually surprised he doesn't look to Nebula from the blog post version of the video.
A friend of mine reached out to a couple of Nebula creators to ask them if it was more beneficial financially for people to watch their stuff on Nebula or YT. Neither had a cut and dried answer, saying that YT views are important for long term discoverability that was hard to quantify vs getting a direct cut of the Nebula money/YT ads. So I'll sometimes watch shorter-form videos on YT and save the deep dives/binging for Nebula.
Edit because I forgot the point I was responding to: Grady linking to YT might be a case of needing that engagement either short or long term.