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> 2^600 is approximately 1e19.

No, it's approximately 1e180. You're off by 160 orders of magnitude.

But those 3000 bodies don't have exactly the same genomes obviously. In fact half of them won't even share one of the chromosomes.

It'll be hard to recombine this into a clear picture as you won't know which sequences are common and which are individual.

That isn’t a problem at all, you will get a consensus sequence along with additional information about which variants differ in the population. That is even better info than a single perfect genome sequence.

Not impossible but there are risks in that plan. We could be in a similar problem than chatGPT is having, where part of the combinations would end being wrong and generating newer info, that would reinforce the error.