26  "... her gaze seemed to penetrate right through me, as though she had "x-ray
vision".

"In fictional stories, X-ray vision has generally been portrayed as the ability to see through
layers of objects at the discretion of the holder of this superpower. People often pretend to
have this ability through the use of X-ray glasses, which are a special type of "joke-around"
or prank-gag toys with the secret of its "x-ray properties" being unknown. The goal is usually
to see through clothing, usually to determine if someone is carrying a concealed weapon, but
sometimes for purpose of seeing a person's private parts. In the non-fictional realm, X-rays
have many practical uses in the fields of science and medicine. While there are devices
currently extant which can "see" through clothing (using terahertz waves), most are quite
bulky. However, there are night vision equipped video cameras that can be modified to see
through clothing at a frequency just below visible light."

-- Source Reference: Wikipedia.org

27  ..."Technically, from a medical standpoint, I would say that Airl's body could not
even be called "alive". "

"The word "organism" may broadly be defined as an assembly of molecules that function as
a more or less stable whole and has the properties of life. However, many sources, lexical
and scientific, add conditions that are problematic to defining the word.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines an organism as "[an] individual animal, plant, or
single-celled life form".

This definition problematically excludes non-animal and plant multicellular life forms such as some fungi and protista. Less controversially, perhaps, it excludes viruses and theoretically-possible man-made non-organic life forms. Chambers Online Reference provides a much broader definition: "any living structure, such as a plant, animal, fungus or bacterium, capable of growth and reproduction". The definition "any life form capable of independent reproduction, organic or otherwise" would encompass all cellular life, as well as the possibility of synthetic life capable of independent reproduction,
but would exclude viruses, which are dependent on the biochemical machinery of a host cell
for reproduction. Some may use a definition that would also include viruses."

-- Source Reference: Wikipedia.org

28  "...in space there is not gravity..."

"The terms gravitation and gravity are mostly interchangeable in everyday use, but in
scientific usage a distinction may be made. "Gravitation" is a general term describing the
attractive influence that all objects with mass exert on each other, while "gravity" specifically
refers to a force that is supposed in some theories (such as Newton's) to be the cause of this
attraction. By contrast, in general relativity gravitation is due to space-time curvatures that
cause inertially moving objects to accelerate towards each other.

Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation is a physical law describing the
gravitational attraction between bodies with mass. It is a part of classical mechanics and was
first formulated in Newton's work Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in
1687. In modern language it states the following:

Every point mass attracts every other point mass by a force pointing along the line
intersecting both points. The force is proportional to the product of the two masses and
inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the point masses:
where:

•F is the magnitude of the gravitational force between the two point masses,
•G is the gravitational constant,
•m1 is the mass of the first point mass,
•m2 is the mass of the second point mass,
•r is the distance between the two point masses."

-- Reference: Wikipedia.org

29  "...stenographer..."

"Shorthand is an abbreviated and/or symbolic writing method that increases speed or brevity
of writing as compared to a normal method of writing a language. The process of writing in
shorthand is called stenography, from the Greek stenos (narrow) and graphē(writing). It has
also been called brachygraphy, from Greek brachys (short) and tachygraphy, from Greek
tachys (swift, speedy), depending on whether compression or speed of writing is the goal.
Many forms of shorthand exist. A typical shorthand system provides symbols or
abbreviations for words and common phrases, which allow someone well trained in the
system to write as quickly as people speak. Shorthand was used more widely in the past,
before the invention of recording and dictation machines."

-- Reference: Wikipedia.org