What if the Earth stopped spinning?

[udsuna]

Humanity's too stubbourn to just roll over and die because of a little thing like it being totally impossible to survive.

Actually, you're probably right.... human beings find a way to do everything else. Defying the odds is what we're good at. Although we still can't build underwater cities... when THAT happens, we stand a fighting chance.

There's another possibility... if the Earth stopped rotating, it could end up kind of like our moon, with the same side facing its center of rotation constantly

Nope... the reason the moon stays facing us the same way is because its "rotation" is the same rate as its "revolution". If those two are equal, you get the object always facing the same direction in relation to the other body. But a true, non-spinning, body sits with the same face in relation to the "absolute" universe. In fact, our moon actually spins *FASTER* than the earth does. It just orbits much faster around us than we do around the sun.