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ELI5: What would happen if the Earth stopped spinning but continued about its orbit?

What would happen socially and politically as I'm assuming that the day/night cycle would become a year long affair.


All of this is assuming that it is at all possible that it could happen.


*edit: I feel that I should word me question better.  My question above is in the scenario where the doomsday tsunami didn't happen. So what would society become with the change in the day/night cycle.
gpt
If it stopped instantly, you'd smack into the nearest wall at lethal speeds and die, all buildings and most infrastructure would fail and collapse.

Massive tsunamis would occur as inertia of the water drags itself over the coastline, that said; pretty much your only chance of surviving this is to be under water, close enough to the shore that you can make it back without a boat, but far enough awy that you werent dragged onto land and dumped by the wave.

So now the world is entirely populated by scuba divers, they could scavenge food for a while but eventually the human race is doomed. The 6 month day/night cycle would likely destroy all natural life between the tropics of capricorn and cancer, polar bears and penguins wouldn't give a fuck, they already deal with that. Trees and plants wouldn't be able to cope with being starved for so long, new breeds of hibernating plantlife evolve, small animals thrive where they can eat the tubers these plants use for winter fuel. Birds would probably survive, they could migrate with twilight, feeding on these rodents.