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A ''very'' frequent cause of [[Awesome but Impractical]]. [[Cool but Inefficient]] is a subtrope. Related to [[No OSHA Compliance]], as process safety is a pretty big issue for most engineers in [[Real Life]].
See also: [[Artists Are Not Architects]], [[Sci Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]], [[Square
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** One notable offender is the Senate Building. Its central chamber is so large that unless the air inside was kept extremely dry, clouds would condense in the upper tiers.
** There's also the issue of how a city-spanning planet could possibly void all the heat that it generates, not to mention the gaseous exhaust of trillions of vehicles, building systems, and industrial facilities. It's even mentioned in one novel that Coruscant somehow still has ice caps, and the characters go skiing.
** Another: The [[Square
*** On the subject of [[Darths and Droids]] and this trope, the players decry Naboo as being unrealistic for structural reasons...except for [[The Ditz|Jim]], who it turns out is a postgraduate student getting his Phd in geophysics, and actually goes to the trouble to work out how such a planet ''would'' be feasible.
*** To be fair, considering the space ships they can build I don't think they would have an issue engineering buildings to withstand the stresses of intense wind pressure with the materials available to them.
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