Lucien Enjolras

"Yeah, it's wild," says Shen Yuan. "Anyway—I'm not arguing that the Earth isn't mostly covered in water, I'm not, like, a flat-earther or whatever. But that's a fact because it's a consensus of experiences. Both your boat guys and my astronauts observed the world and drew conclusions about it, and those conclusions were backed up by everyone who used the boat maps to navigate or whatever, everyone who looked at pics of the earth, and the consensus of that became the fact. And if you told that fact to—I don't know, someone from far further back than anyone here, before they'd made all your boat maps, they'd disagree, because it conflicts with their consensus reality."