Very interesting article. There are tons of ethical and practical concerns above and beyond the genetic situation, which itself might be fixable well before a s

Very interesting article. There are tons of ethical and practical concerns above and beyond the genetic situation, which itself might be fixable well before a ship capable of such a journey was ready. However, what I found weirdest about the article was not the topic itself, but this line: "He calculated the trajectory of each population 10 times, then averaged the results. (With one exception: The starting population of 40,000 is so large that it takes 18 hours to complete each simulation, so he calculated that trajectory only once.)" Even without considering the possibility of running the simulation on 10 colleague's computers or spinning up cloud VMs or any number of workarounds, how rushed was this project that a week's worth of 18 hour MATLAB runs was considered too much work?