No special pleading here—just basic physics and geometry. Water does conform to the shape of its container, and on Earth, that container is the curved surface of a sphere. At large scales, water follows the curvature of the Earth due to gravity.

You can observe this curvature over large bodies of water with experiments like:

	•	Ship hulls disappearing first as they move away from shore, which wouldn’t happen if the Earth were flat.
	•	Lighthouses being visible from farther away the higher they are, another clear sign of curvature.
	•	The Bedford Level Experiment, which initially seemed to support flat Earth but, when repeated correctly with proper controls, confirmed Earth’s curvature.

If water didn’t follow Earth’s curvature, satellite imagery, aircraft navigation, and even basic GPS wouldn’t work. The fact that we use curvature in these technologies—and they function perfectly—shows this isn’t about preference or special pleading; it’s about observable, measurable reality.