As #ClimateChange and extreme weather bump against decaying infrastructure, personal energy resilience becomes an increasing concern. I've been working at this for my own home the last four years. Here's the advice I wish I'd gotten.
If you have outages more than once a year, start with a generator. Of all your options, it has the lowest initial cost and works at all times of day and in all seasons.
Now, my FANTASY is using all my excess solar generation to create and store hydrogen, and an electric generator that runs on hydrogen
But we're not there yet, and maybe it wouldn’t even be practical
Still, battery is nice but I hate its price/performance. There has to be a better way. As ever across my lifetime, we await a breakthrough in energy storage.
Yeah, but the point is that if you want the real-world equivalent to the habitable worlds opened up by the protomolecule as regards Mars, that’s actually just the entire rest of the outer solar system, especially the moons and asteroid belt. They’re exactly as habitable as Mars will ever be in actual reality. Mars stops mattering except as an orbital pitstop as soon as there are places that are just as good if not better developed farther out, in smaller or non-existent gravity wells.
Mars has no active geology, therefore no Van Allen belts, therefore the only shielding you get is if you bury yourself. And to generate the energy required to artificially generate Van Allen belts that can actually protect us from cosmic rays… first, it’s a preposterous amount, second, it’s energy rent you have to pay in perpetuity to get an inferior environment anyways and zero resources that aren’t available in greater abundance in cheaper gravity wells, because you’re not realistically going to be spinning up the core anytime soon. Then you need to initiate planetary-wide processes to erode the toxic regolith. The numbers just do not add up.
Then there’s the 38% Earth gravity, which A - is likely to be as unhealthy as a spun-up semi-microgravity environment B - isn’t strong enough to retain any atmosphere thick enough to support humans, which means not only do you have to pay a continuous gargantuan energy rent just to one day walk on the surface without being killed by cosmic rays, you also have to import atmosphere which you’re guaranteed to have to replace.
I enjoy the Expanse, but in spite of its hard science reputation it’s honestly about as realistic as Star Trek in a lot of ways. Terraforming Mars is a fun thought experiment but Jules Verne level out of date at this point. Take it as an unrealistic backdrop for a very fun geopolitical space drama, not a realistic exploration of how space development would actually go. They needed a third power to make the politics complicated. Nobody’s ever gonna breathe the free air of Mars, that’s a fantasy, and that’s knowable today, which means it’ll never be invested in seriously.
I wrote a short story about the Fediverse, called “Breath Taker” / “Lamella on My Mind”, which is set in a Solarpunk world, in which, with the help of mushrooms, the so-called Fungiverse replaces traditional social media. I posted links to the short story in this community. Now I’m thinking how to continue to make this...
I would suggest a series of short stories if you like the setting and are enjoying writing it.
I think something more relatable might get the solar punk message across. I only dipped into the short story you posted and it felt more fantasy than near future sci-fi.
And tbh, I opened it more because I’m a mushroom and sci-fi/fantasy nerd and saw your post in the sci-fi sub.
I generally only lurk here out of interest in urban mycology/farming
I would suggest a series of short stories if you like the setting and are enjoying writing it.
I was thinking about that too. Could be cool to experiment with different characters, factions, etc.
I think something more relatable might get the solar punk message across. I only dipped into the short story you posted and it felt more fantasy than near future sci-fi.
Its just that with the mention of actual federated social media, many people seem to immediatly recoil. And then if you introduce some metaphor for the Fediverse like the Fungiverse, then you also have to incorporate it in a world that really embraces the concept.
And tbh, I opened it more because I’m a mushroom and sci-fi/fantasy nerd and saw your post in the sci-fi sub.
Ah, I see. Maybe I do need to edit the story again so it fits more the primary genre … let’s see. Thanks for the feedback ;)
Black starry sky shows Earth centered on Arizona and meso-America with typical cloud cover. There isn't a sub-solar bright spot, instead light seems to be coming as from a light-ring focused on the globe. The camera swoops toward Colorado.
High aerial view shows a curved horizon and what looks like cities, many cities, plumes of black smoke rising and drifting north. The sun doesn't look right.
Three quick views of gliding over blasted landscapes, burnt trees, smoldering buildings—each closer.
[Voice over sounding vaguely like Rod Serling]: "Civilization dies yet again."
It's a battlefield, too far away to see anything but vaguely human forms. No recognizable machines, but metal fragments, a steampunk fantasy of wagons, sleds.
A flapping-wings sound heralds a crow-like shadow swooping down as we notice the sun...
A bright late afternoon glow, like clouds illuminated prior to sunset but without clouds, spreads north and south. Something's definitely wrong with the sun.
Flash montage of grime-covered broken bodies. Some people have feathered wings. A few have cat-like legs with hooves. They look human, otherwise. The rest of the dead are regular humans.
We see a brass handheld device in a dark-skinned hand. Sparkles blink from what aren't bulbs and look vaguely like fireflies. The glow intensifies and a shower of sparks swirls out and point right. It looks like magic.
[Voice over]: "One lost man scavenges for miraculous devices he can sell."
We hear canvas-like sounds. Raven, a dark-skinned man with long black hair appears. He has bat-like wings (a third set of limbs on is back) that make downstrokes (like an eagle landing) to land him where the sparks point. His wings have a vague golden aura until he lands.
Zoom in on the pale face of a woman who will be named Sunny. Grey color makes her look corpse-like. Pointed antelope horns sprout from the back of her skull and meet at her forehead, evoking a Roman laurel crown. The right horn is cracked and hanging from a head wound. She's covered in dried blood and dirt, but we see the remnants of a torn and burnt uniform. She's in a fetal position. We pull back to see an iridescent blue feathered angel wing THEN a rusty red one! Both twisted beneath her. Her brown feline-shaped legs (naked to above her hips) end in hooves, but they don't match the bloodied olive skin of her back under the blood-encrusted uniform blouse. Pulling back further, we see the glowing miasma from Raven's handheld insistently pointing at Sunny, brightening even more.
Finishing the pullback, we flyover and glimpse twisted dead that might be missing body parts.
[Raven holding handheld]: "How augmented was she?"
Close up on Sunny's face. She gasps, inhales loudly. Her face changes from grey to flushed. A golden halo forms around her head and dirt blows away from her with the sound of autumnal leaves.
New, bright, spring-like scene with green tree foliage behind. Sunny lies on a makeshift bed on a tree limb, head bandaged so she looks like a normal human. Green eyes open and blink. She smiles at the camera, but looks perplexed.
[Sunny]: "I'm alive? Why's that surprising...? Why don't I know who I am?"
[Voice over]: "A woman found alive on a battlefield of the dead. A Frankenstein monster without a Frankenstein. A man searching for a reason for his heart to beat."
Raven's hands take Sunny's hands. Her differently-colored angel wings stir.
[Voice over, ominous]: "The war isn't over."
Brief image of a giant human with deer antlers. Building-sized. A halo appears around its head. A disintegrating house, a splintering tree, and people raise up like autumn leaves caught in a glowing golden whirlwind.
Return to Raven and Sunny in the tree.
[Voice over]: "How many died because of her?"
[Raven]: "How many?"
Pull back to show Raven folding his bat wings behind his back.
[Voice over]: "Can he love a monster?"
[Raven]: "Can I not?"
[Voice over]: "Can it restore lost memories?"
Pull back to flash montage of the battlefield, antlered humans of various types some with halos, regular humans fleeing and day angels flapping into the air desperately, burning cities from airplane altitude, suddenly obscured by flapping blue and red angel wings. They visually cover the earth. Lost differently colored feathers zigzag and shoot into the camera lens.
[Announcer voice over with bold titles]: "DEVIL-GIRL, RELUCTANT SAVIOR, coming Memorial Day Weekend, 2024."
Highlights: The White House issued draft rules today that would require federal agencies to evaluate and constantly monitor algorithms used in health care, law enforcement, and housing for potential discrimination or other harmful effects on human rights....
Regardless LLMs aint the most revolutionary tech of the century
Oh it is though. Not LLMs, they'll probably go out of date soon. AI is the thing that's revolutionary. Only second to genetic modification, but AI and most other forms of human advancement will likely be hand in hand.
Like solar roadways, or the hyperloop, or the thorium powered car.
This is irrelevant but I didn't buy the crap on any of those.
Or crypto.
AI is actually producing results. It's in use as we speak. It's producing real value. It's not some fantasy far off thing. You can use them today.
And you probably use AI every single day when you open your phone and take a picture. You'll eat these words, and when you do you'll hopefully have access to the tech yourself, because otherwise Mister Microsoft will control who can and can't succeed in the world.
Electrolysers that split water to produce hydrogen have trouble working with seawater, but overcoming this would offer new ways to produce the clean-burning fuel using offshore renewable energy...
Solar Fantasy ist ein super einfaches Rollenspiel. Du brauchst nur ein paar Freunde und Fudge Würfel, vielleicht noch Papier und Stift, und schon kann es los gehen. Einer von euch macht die Spielleitung. Das bist wohl Du? Alle anderen Mitspieler denken sich eine Person aus. Die Spielleitung erträumt sich eine Welt und Situationen …
Such a bike-only city just have to build heated underground tunnels for biking. If a New York subway style bike highway isn’t good enough., since wind chill and all that, instead build a city-wide roof over the first floor of all the buildings in the city to basically make that first floor a basement.
This is obviously an extreme answer, but if a city wanted to be bike-only, the only barrier is cost.
no city wants to do that, but they could. Stick Solar panels on the first floor roof and do the solar freaking roadways idea to heat up the tiles and avoid plowing (without needing to make them car-proof.)
I got myself all excited, I wish this was more than a modern fantasy.
If you are not, then why oppose green ideas? Are you here to sell BEVs exclusively, or all green ideas?
The problem is that your arguments are beyond the pale. It is a mishmash of conspiracy theories, incoherent rhetoric, and failure to recognize even the most basic facts of the debate. Again, an FCEV is an EV. It drives exactly like how BEVs drive. And with zero tailpipe emissions too. The exact same type of car that BEV represent. It's impossible to be aggressively opposed to FCEVs without revealing your ulterior motives.
And the fact that EV drivers having solar just shows how it is mostly virtue signaling by a handful of upper-middle class families. Clearly, the vast majority of people will not have solar power at home. Even more so for apartment dwellers. This is just a green fantasy by the rich.
The problem is that you are basically channeling people like Donald Trump with your absurd conspiracy theories and insistence on a battery monopoly. This the peak of neoliberal capitalism, and a total unwillingness to engage with normal people. You are entirely projecting with your arguments.
The Federal Labor government has put a $387 billion price tag on the cost of the federal Coalition’s push for nuclear energy, describing those plans as “lies and fantasies” and based around a hatred for wind and solar....
Mucking about with the Game Crafter site to see if shipping was cheaper internationally from it (it is) has also caused me to realize that it'd be dead easy to do a box set RPG using their tools; dice, cards, pad of character sheets, books, the whole lot, in a printed box.
@LeviKornelsen sounds great! I was bouncing around ideas for a rpg-in-a-box a couple months back. I was thinking comic book space fantasy a bit like Solar Blades & Cosmic Spells
I’m a developer for an open-world tabletop RPG called Fully Automated! The goal is to create a free, open-source game that can be to solarpunk what D&D is to fantasy and Shadowrun to cyberpunk. And the first version is mostly done. It’s got:...
I don’t know a lot of solarpunk. The most would be star trek, and it works by focusing on exploration.
Fantasy works well IMO because it features a broad diversity of scenarios and possibilities. Monsters can be akin to natural threat or opposing factions. You can work an utopian city or a distopian one. It’s familiar because it’s culturaly rooted for centuries.
To get the equivalent, you would need a universe where solarpunk lives with cyberpunk and many other kinds of futures. Which is kind of what star trek does: by focusing on exploring the fringes of the federation, they get to meet independent planets and hostile empires that will fuel the stories. Andromeda works quite a bit like that btw.
So my point here is first that by focusing on the solarpunk aspect I feel like you make it harder start a story. The document should have something to start the stories, so an imperfect society or one that is a beacon of hope in the galaxy for example.
And the second is the exploration aspect will be very important for that. Both for investigation and exploring. But reading more, it’s actually grounded, no space exploration. So it’s oriented toward investigation. But there are no specific rules for that either.
There is an odd thing too: how do you justify characters with combat training in an utopian solarpunk society? I guess the organisation would provide the formation.
I am personally not found of the setting being rooted in the US and limited to the solar system, but that’s a matter of taste. Likewise the 2d10 roll bellow and the classless system. But it seems to work. I like the medium crunch but the card system is new to me, it’s interesting.
Something to consider is a tie between the mechanics and the universe. For example in dnd you have the alignment and the planes. In cyberpunk you have the humanity versus the augments. These do a lot to build an identity. For solarpunk, maybe it could be that dying is easy but reviving is also. There could be a corruption similar to alignment that would reflect how progressive vs capitalistic/selfish a character is. Something for your system to be less “generic with some solarpunk lore dump”. Something that would make the system mechanically solarpunk.
It is also a very misleading argument in this case. The square-cube law is why you can’t just scale up a human to 40 meters tall. The design and materials of our joints (and, at that scale, bones?) just can’t handle it.
But nobody is suggesting we make mechs out of blood and skin… well, okay, Attack on Titan. And arguably Escaflowne. But aside from that. You make them out of sturdy metal and ridiculously powerful and magic fibers. And you reinforce the joints and use different designs that are able to handle much greater stress and strain (I can never keep track of the difference between those two).
Same with the design. There is almost zero chance of a skyscraper sized sentai mech that is just a person with some cardboard shin pads ever working (and I am fundamentally incapable of admitting Gundams fall into this category). But the more “realistic” mech designs take a lot from construction equipment and focus on having a lower center of mass and an almost “frog” like shape.
Even with modern equipment, we have proof of concept bipedal mechs. They tend to be closer to the 12-18 foot range (which corresponds to Armored Core 1, if memory serves) and have limited utility (basically just youtube videos and county fairs), but they work. And there are even commercial quadruped walkers (Hacksmith bought two or three, tried to fuse them, and fucked up the math, right?).
And… I’ve seen some proof of concepts made out of wood with minimal amounts of metal. So the limiting factor has not been “the square-cube law” for decades (arguably centuries).
The issue is really utility. A biped has almost no use over a quadruped (sorry, “tetrapod”). With a biped you can fit it in narrower spaces but… not that much more narrow since you are likely to have “t-rex arms” in terms of being able to do work close to the cockpit. Like, gonna make a tangent to this deranged rant but: Fuck the mechs in The Matrix. You are fighting flying squids with knife tentacles. So you obviously use a glass cockpit with arms that can’t even protect you if they get in close. I know we pretend that was The Machines seeding them for failure but… anyone with a modicum of engineering knowledge should have said “What the fuck? This is stupid. At least weld some metal plates to that frame”. Err… anyway.
With a quadruped you have MUCH easier math to control both the movement and the tolerances and MUCH better balance. And MUCH more carrying capacity whether that is for construction supplies or… a dozen NLAWs and a big ass machine gun. Except… why would you need that carrying capacity for a construction machine? If you are remote enough that you can’t get the usual stuff there… why are you building in the first place? We don’t need a skyscraper in the middle of nowhere. And military outposts increasingly depend on prefabricated buildings that can be airlifted in. And if you can’t airlift something in, how are you going to defend it? The idea of having a walker schlep a bunch of metal beams across a mountain has never made enough sense to justify the R&D.
Even for the idea of a (WW1) “storm trooper” kind of situation where you want a heavily armored exosuit to break the enemy line, such as the suits from Live Die Repeat/Edge of Tomrorow: You can have almost the exact same capabilities with a tetrapod/centaur design. And those would cost enough that you want your soldiers to have enough training to control them. Like, you will NEVER mass produce these to the point where “we can train people to use them in a day because of the ergonomics” is a priority.
But… that gets to the other side of why mechs are just incredibly impractical. There is a reason we discuss “the death of the tank” every time there is a major battle. The window where tanks were an unstoppable force was… a year or two after WW1 until part way through WW2? In almost every other time period, infantry are more than capable of taking out tanks/armor with the kind of weapons you can equip every squad with. That is why tanks are mostly weapon platforms that are good at oppressing an unprepared populace. Against any “near peer” force, they are just giant missile/rocket magnets and are increasingly being treated as fire support and a deterrent rather than an actual offensive force.
Which is the reality. Amuro or Mikazuki appearing on the field would not be a moment where the entire enemy force collectively shits their pants and hopes that someone in a giant mech can stop them. It would be when every single NCO tells their infantry squads to light them up and then Gundam would get blapped like a kid on the Ideon. Which is why it has been an ongoing joke for decades at this point that the “meta” in Battletech is to not field mechs. It is to field a shit ton of tanks and (effectively) technicals with cannons and missile launchers on the back (I THINK the most recent ruleset found a way to make that not true? Been a minute).
Which is why you almost always need some other convoluted mess to justify “real” mechs. Gundam generally builds it around the idea of magic energy fields where long ranged attacks don’t work in space… and that still doesn’t justify the use of mechs over fighters or bombers. And still makes absolutely no sense for the obligatory arc on Earth. And is often outright referenced during the space base assault where Zakus and GMs are fucking things up because they are firing from cover and ambushes. Armored Core (at least the good ones) have sort of made it work with the idea that in 1 and 2 and 3 these were evolutions of construction equipment and almost entirely operate in enclosed spaces. 4 and 6 largely shift that to being more about having Newtypes who are so insanely good at piloting that the only thing that can REALLY stop them is another Newtype… and that the reason we don’t have a shit ton of infantry with Javelins is because most of humanity is dead. Battletech goes back and forth with the idea that we have a VERY limited subset of technology available but… tanks and jeeps with guns win.
But to argue that The Square Cube Law is why we can’t have mechs is like saying we could never have personal vehicles because you can’t fit a coal engine in a small enough form factor.
And just because I am clearly a nerd who has been obsessed with mechs since they were a child, I do think it is actually worth looking at the UC timeline of Mobile Suit Gundam.
it has very much been retconned, but the OG 0079 actually had a really clever take on it that almost justifies mobile suits (mechs). Pretty much everyone was dependent on “balls” and the kinds of weapons that actually evolve out of construction equipment. And then Zeon more or less said “We can fit a lot more armor and guns on something larger” with the Zeong heavily implying that even they knew a biped was stupid but were required to make one because of politics and the royals.
And while the suits let them conquer almost the entirety of the solar system, they never really got a foothold on Earth. Because… tanks and artillery. Like, we pretend that White Base is what saved those military installations but even the modern retconned timeline shows that Zeon made very few gains in a ground war.
And… that actually makes sense. Zakus, and later Gundam, were very much a rapid reaction. Similar to the crazy shit we saw in WW1 and WW2. But even by the end of the one year war, we had mass produced GMs and the effectiveness of a mobile suit was DRASTICALLY reduced. And that is why Zeta and ZZ were all about “mobile armors” that were a lot closer to tanks and small battleships.
IGLOO sort of touched on this. but Thunderbolt and MS 08th Team (and now I am sad again) very much undermined it and it was basically just a generic mech fantasy by the time of F91 and later Unicorn.
So, based on all the recommendations I read on Lemmy, I decided to dump 22€ into a game I knew absolutely nothing about (except that you explore an open world solar system, which is the type of game I love)....
I’m majoring in CS related-field, and I used to have tons of passion for it and underlying tech, and worked as full stack dev, but my mind was very different in a good way (better at logical/cognitive demanding tasks, creative, productive, etc). Things happened, and I just can’t stand living in society, experiencing all this...
That’s my fantasy. Have drawn up plans. Would love to live on plot of wooded land with artists, techies, eccentrics. Privacy respected, no one forced to do anything. But community bulletin board, hey I need this, can offer this in exchange.
There’s a website where, if you already have land, can order tiny home kit for 10 to 20k.
Or, can order pre-assembled tiny home, hitch it to truck, more freedom of movement.
My fantasy. Plot of land, nature. Garden, grow some of my own food. Solar power, sustainable. Local community I can visit to trade food, services. I scour the woods looking for materials, bring them to my self built cabin, and make cat furniture out of found wood. Creative cat furniture, wall habitats, can sell for $700 or more
I think the big issue with a personal preference of realism vs. Fantasy is that Starfield has no commitment to realism in its execution (I say this with 12 hours played before I gave up). It is very much made to cater to lowest common denominator in other space travel things. The ship movement is very primitive and simplified. Travelling to new solar systems, landing on a planet, etc. Is done through fast travelling on the map to connect the different cells. It does not feel immersive in the slightest to me, and I have really enjoyed the “realism” of games like Elite Dangerous in the past.
Most damning is the lack of environmental planet differences. The only affect of a planets negative traits is suit protection reduction. There is no life support, your oxygen is just a stamina system. There is no vehicles. You are just running across barren, boring, procedural planets with none of the pomp and circumstance of games that have done effective space exploration.
Maybe in 2 years of mods you might have a more realistic experience out of starfield.
Fascinating: https://mastodon.social/@Snoro/111009719372820276 But not sure I'd take this approach without direct provocation from drivers. That said, it might influence people's vehicle purchasing decisions... Disclosure: I've used this (non-destructive but inconvenient) approach on a couple occasions when I've come across cars whose drivers have previously put my safety (as a cyclist obeying all road rules) at risk for their own convenience or out of ignorance of their responsibilities...
our society’s economies are in lock step with fossil fuel exploitation
Are you in an fantasy world? There are two fantasies going on:
Industry is not “in lock step with fossil fuel” .. all the big energy companies are making money off climate change. They’ve all pivoted for selling less efficient tech that seems “green” to get more cash. (see the documentary Planet of the Humans which goes into all the petrol needed to keep wind turbines and solar stations running .. they literally cannot operate without hydrocarbons).
that needs to change
Fossil fuel is the single reason we have the world we have today. It’s not going away any time soon. That’s a fantasy .. and if there is no anthropocentric climate change, cutting fuel forces people into poverty and struggle to heat their homes for no damn reason.
A City on Mars: Reality kills space settlement dreams (arstechnica.com)
A book review on the latest Weinersmith creation. It’s true, there is so much we don’t know....
Should I add more chapters to my Fungiverse-Story, expand the story to a novel or retry in a completely new setting?
I wrote a short story about the Fediverse, called “Breath Taker” / “Lamella on My Mind”, which is set in a Solarpunk world, in which, with the help of mushrooms, the so-called Fungiverse replaces traditional social media. I posted links to the short story in this community. Now I’m thinking how to continue to make this...
Joe Biden Wants US Government Algorithms Tested for Potential Harm Against Citizens (www.wired.com)
Highlights: The White House issued draft rules today that would require federal agencies to evaluate and constantly monitor algorithms used in health care, law enforcement, and housing for potential discrimination or other harmful effects on human rights....
Can we get limitless green hydrogen by splitting seawater? (www.newscientist.com)
Electrolysers that split water to produce hydrogen have trouble working with seawater, but overcoming this would offer new ways to produce the clean-burning fuel using offshore renewable energy...
and no this is not an invitation for oil addicts to rant about EVs (lemmy.world)
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cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/5962645...
Overwatch 2 Retail Patch Notes - October 10, 2023 (us.forums.blizzard.com)
HALLOWEEN TERROR 2023...
OC Weekly Crowdfunding Roundup: October 1 2023 (docs.google.com)
What is this?...
Could hydrogen-powered cars be the green answer to carbon emissions? (www.i24news.tv)
1.5 billion cars worldwide are responsible for at least half of global carbon emissions. But there might be an answer.
“Lies and fantasies:” Bowen puts $387 billion price tag on Dutton’s nuclear plans (reneweconomy.com.au)
The Federal Labor government has put a $387 billion price tag on the cost of the federal Coalition’s push for nuclear energy, describing those plans as “lies and fantasies” and based around a hatred for wind and solar....
Looking for players for a Solarpunk tabletop RPG (slrpnk.net)
I’m a developer for an open-world tabletop RPG called Fully Automated! The goal is to create a free, open-source game that can be to solarpunk what D&D is to fantasy and Shadowrun to cyberpunk. And the first version is mostly done. It’s got:...
What do you mean mechs are non-credible? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
I didn't really understand the hype...
So, based on all the recommendations I read on Lemmy, I decided to dump 22€ into a game I knew absolutely nothing about (except that you explore an open world solar system, which is the type of game I love)....
Should I just quit urban and social life for a rural and lonely life?
I’m majoring in CS related-field, and I used to have tons of passion for it and underlying tech, and worked as full stack dev, but my mind was very different in a good way (better at logical/cognitive demanding tasks, creative, productive, etc). Things happened, and I just can’t stand living in society, experiencing all this...
Demand for uranium for reactors seen jumping 28% by 2030 (www.reuters.com)
Nuclear capacity is expected to rise by 14% by 2030 and surge by 76% to 686 GWe by 2040, the report said...
Starfield's planets aren't all interesting, but they're not all "supposed to be Disney World" (www.vg247.com)
You'll probably find that a lot of planets in Starfield are pretty boring, but Bethesda says that's kind of the point.