Inexplicable orbiting inside space stations

[MadDogMurdock]

Hopelessly wrong physics is more immersion breaking than no physics.

Fortunately, the same fight assist thruster manipulation stuff that explains why we don't have a pure Newtonian flight model provides a much more viable explanation than all space craft being light enough to be blown around like feathers.

So you think having the air on one side pushing down, and on the other pushing up won't make your ship rotate.

I'll have to tell Boeing that air doesn't have any momentum.

 

[MadDogMurdock]

So you think having the air on one side pushing down, and on the other pushing up won't make your ship rotate.

I'll have to tell Boeing that air doesn't have any momentum.

Actually, although true, there is an even easier explanation.

When you approach the station, you match its rotation. When you go through the entrance you are entering a column of air rotating at more or less the same rate.

So why would you all of a sudden stop rotating, and have the station start spinning around you?
You wouldn't.