I used to never see two G trains in a row at the Carroll Street station, but I would often see two, or even three, F trains coming before the G did. "Why," I wondered, "are there so many more F trains than G trains?"
That was when I was riding the G. Now I take the F... and I never see two Fs in a row. For the same reason that lost things are always in "the last place you look for them"... because once you find them, you stop looking. And once your train comes, you stop waiting. So you only ever see the other guy's train come several times in a row.
If we had to be completely reasonable, we must believe that just because gravitational forces have existed on the earth for the past 4 billion years and more does not mean that they will continue to exist now. We must always be on guard against floating away from the surface at any time.
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