re: #58 Belafon

I’m curious if the earth stopped spinning, say, after a week so that we don’t really feel the deacceleration effects. Like, what happens when the sun is baking one side constantly, and the other side is permanently facing away.

Even though the earth wasn’t spinning, over the course of an orbit around the sun, half the planet would be in continuous sun and half in the cold and dark. Of course, even six months of continuous sun would bake the planet and kill off all life while the other side would face extreme cold, freezing what the sun didn’t already kill.