question:  What is so significant about the surgiscope?
context: Transcriber's Note: Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible; changes (corrections of spelling and punctuation) made to the original text are marked like this . The original text appears when hovering the cursor over the marked text. This e-text was produced from Amazing Science Fiction Stories March 1959. He was a living weapon of destruction— immeasurably powerful, utterly invulnerable. Trella feared she was in for trouble even before Motwick's head dropped forward on his arms in a drunken stupor. A woman could not possibly make her way through these streets alone to the better section of town, especially one clad in a silvery evening dress. Perhaps she could call one of Motwick's friends; she had no one on Ganymede she could call a real friend herself. The dark man moved in on Trella again as Kregg overtook his quarry and swung a huge fist like a sledgehammer. The gravity of Ganymede was hardly more than that of Earth's moon, but the way the man picked up the limp Motwick with one hand and tossed him over a shoulder was startling: as though he lifted a feather pillow. He followed Trella out the door of the Golden Satellite and fell in step beside her. The transparent dome of Jupiter's View was faintly visible in the reflected night lights of the colonial city, but the lights were overwhelmed by the giant, vari-colored disc of Jupiter itself, riding high in the sky. “No one has ever landed on Jupiter. I was born and brought up there, and I was finally able to build a small rocket with a powerful enough drive to clear the planet.” “If Dr. Mansard succeeded in landing on Jupiter, why didn't anyone ever hear from him again?” she demanded. It was peculiarly inappropriate, but not unbelievable, that the strongest and most agile man on Ganymede should be a coward. For some reason she decided against telling him that the assignment on which she had come to the Jupiter system was to gather his own father's notebooks and take them back to Earth.
output:  It can perform fine operations at a microscopic level
options:  It can allow a surgeon to permanently alter a person's DNA  It can perform fine operations at a microscopic level  It can be used to turn a human into an android  It can probe the brain of any creature, dead or alive