I know you say it tongue in cheek but this has proposal has been put forth before to which I ask what would the "comment" look like? Is it written in english? In novel nucleotides?
The comment would exist in the same "character set" that DNA is written in. So yeah, the A, T, C and G nucleotides. As far as what it would look like, that's a hard one. If the comments were encrypted the first problem would be to determine if there is valid, but encrypted, information there - as opposed to random junk. And since DNA is rather like "open source", if I had to bet it would be that the comments would be encrypted.
The comment would exist in the same "character set" that DNA is written in. So yeah, the A, T, C and G nucleotides. As far as what it would look like, that's a hard one. If the comments were encrypted the first problem would be to determine if there is valid, but encrypted, information there - as opposed to random junk. And since DNA is rather like "open source", if I had to bet it would be that the comments would be encrypted.
Doing a bit of web searching, I found this! Now isn't that interesting?
To a literalist Bible-believer, they'd be in Hebrew, I guess. To a Muslim, the'd be in Classical Arabic. To a Hindu, in Sanskrit.....
Rather like Sagan's "Cosmos", with the message in Pi.