billrussell42
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If the earth stopped spinning, we would still have day and night, but they would be a year long. As the non-spinning earth went around the sun, it presents a different face to the sun.
So we would have a winter where it is dark all the time, and the temperatures would go very low. And summers with very high temperatures and sun 24 hours a day.
There would be teriffic storms as the air circulated between the hot and cold regions.
Life would go on in the far north and far south, where the temperature effects would be mediated.
Of course this has no chance of happening on any time scale less than millions of years.
delta dawn
The good news is that there would be no more tornadoes, hurricanes, cyclones, etc. The bad news is that it means the core has frozen and the Earth's dynamo is defunct. Then the solar uv would photo-dissociate all of the water in the oceans, stripping the hydrogen from water molecules, while the solar wind blows it off into space.
Then all sorts of cosmic rays--Galactic, solar, extragalactic, ultra high energy, and anamolous--would bombard us. Like other ionizing radiation, high-energy cosmic rays can damage DNA, increasing the risk of cancer, cataracts, neurological disorders, and non-cancer mortality risks.
Experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Booster accelerator revealed that low energy protons cause more damage than high energy ones. This is explained by the fact that slower particles have more time to interact with molecules in the body.
badboy
If the Earth were to stop spinning then it would forever be day on one side and night on the other. Because of this all crops on one side (the dark) will die off, the crops towards the light would get too much and die. One side would become to hot and the other too cold killing off animals. We would have more extreame weather. Because the Earth would be even more unevened in heating that would cause for much faster winds which could damage buildings. Overall everyone and everything would be destroyed. Earth would turn into a big rock floating in space.
Anonymous
Well it's true that there would be all those catostrophic events, but the earth spins at 1000 miles an hour, so anything not sucurely pinned to the ground would ... fly in the direction the earth spins, i forget. so ya.. and i dont remember but the earth spinning causes gravity.. so we would fly away...
RoVale
If people are able to survive, they would all have to live in the zones that are stuck between day and night. The day side would get too hot and the night side would be too cold so people would have to be concentrated in those areas. It would be a real problem if they are mainly comprised of oceans.