I can just imagine the Daleks trundling into the office screaming "D-C-M-A!"

With AC coming almost as standard nowadays, I wonder if it will ever come to a point where you can't open the window if the car is going over a certain speed. It uses a lot less energy to cool the interior of the car using AC, than the cost to aerodynamics of having a window (or 2) open while travelling at speed.

I welcome the day when cars simply become a means of transport.

Well, there's also the possibility that if it wasn't caused by evolution, then God made us and everything this way. Would a loving god design us to have cancer?

What about heating and electricity!

This is close to a question I was going to ask, and will do so now.

Have we ruled out all possible natural methods of CCl4 production? Just like how volcano's spew out tons of CO2, there may be methods, like you post for natural production of CCl4 which has acted as an automated regulator of the biosphere. Increased animal population, increased methane production, increased Ozone depletion. This normally happens so slowly that it is more spread out around the globe, instead of fixed over the poles, so it would have a slower global impact, to increase UV pass-through which in turn increases plant growth etc or kills off animals to reduce the methane production.

Humans came along an introduced a massive imbalance, in both methane production and directly introducing CCl4 to the atmosphere. We may have reduced greatly the amount of CCl4 usage, but all the agribusiness is still producing excess methane.

Its temperature was checked by putting a thermometer in the back door.

And where there's Space Plankton, the must be Space Whales. Man the harpoons maties!.

I hear they would have given it the highest danger rating, but that would have involved changing the lightbulb. Since all those involved already knew, they didn't see the point.

I don't understand the problem, you pronounce it exactly as it's written.

The Darwin Awards world cup?

I don't know if this was your intention or not, but this may be one of the best unintentional advertisements for the product I've seen in a long while.

"My friend fell down an elevator shaft in game and had to quit and have a lie down to recover."

My sex-life?

No, give EVERYONE knives, so that if you try to go on a knifing spree, there's a good chance that you are going to come up against an angry mob armed with knives.

For a split second I was thinking this tech would be useful in schools to spot people about to go on a murder spree, but then I remembered that a school would have an ungodly false positive rate. It would be interesting to see if it would be of much use to find people who are being regularly bullied, spot those who are under constant stress in school and reach out to them to provide assistance, long before they go on a murder spree.

Hyper = increased beyond normal range, like hyper-extension (joints) and hyperglycaemic.
Spectral = light emission range.

They are simply using UV or IR imaging (most likely IR, as increased oxygenation in the surface blood will alter the temperature of the skin) and since IR falls outside our typical range of visible light, calling it Hyperspectral imaging is quite correct.

You may be mistaking Spectrum and Spectre here and ending up with a ghost who's ingested too much sugar.