JenP has a speculative/generative mind like mine. I think, if the world suddenly stopped spinning, that flights from London to the US would not be as short as they routinely are (basically the plane gets extra help from the earth rotating under it).

Also, 1/2 of the globe would suddenly come down with insomnia.

1/2 of the globe would suddenly come down with insomnia.

We'd still get night and day, though. Not sure how long they'd be, but it's not the day=year scenario above, which is what robs you of it.

::tries to resist doing the math::

::succeeds suprisingly easily::

I didn't do the math, I googled instead, and so far if it stopped rotating tides would sweep us off anything near a coast, hopefully before the moon's orbit shrank so much it got all up in our business. Winds would get simpler, though.

So far.

I'm doing the same thing. I'm getting boiling oceans and water swept planet ... which means boiling hot water everywhere? Short answer to the quetsion, then: Nothing good.

Boiling oceans? I'm not getting that, except for the year=day scenario.

I'm starting to lean towards an artificially generated shadow field...or "magic."

JenP, many of us can make LJ icons for you, and my screencaps are free to be used by any Buffista. (Besides, I do not own the intellectual property I am screencapping.)

boiling oceans and water swept planet

Cats and dogs, living together...

Wait - if it stopped rotating wouldn't any given point get six months of sun exposure and six months of darkness? The one-face-toward-the-sun option objectively has a year-long day, but subjectively it's either day, night, or twillight forever.

I just did the famous lemon head/rubberband ball experiment.

Yes, we would get a year-long day, as we experience days.

The year=day scenario I mentioned upthread was an apparent sidereal day. Not a solar day.

If I have my esses right.