[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] September 2025 was an unusually bad month for runway overruns in the US. On the night of September 24th, an Embraer 145 with 53 people on board landed long at the Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional Airport in Virginia, overshooting the
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.
direct link to the video embedded in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJqY1WLX4zA (18m39s)
if you want to just read Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineered_materials_arrestor_system
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.