Today

The machine has been disassembled and taken away to a top-secret facility.

(Scientists were bemused by a heap of dust which was found, piled up at the back of the machine. No-one seemed to be able to determine if it played any part in the process or if this was simply left over from the original installation process.)

A world-wide consortium of top-level scientists has been appointed to determine the origin and process whereby the machine works. There appears to a problem with the re-assembly as all efforts to date have failed to get the machine to power up.

It is rumored that a large contingent of evolutionary scientists have abandoned their previous 'amino-acid-to-life' experiments and have started dumping scrap metal and bits of electronics into caves all over the world.

They are apparently extremely relieved that the previous 'primordial soup' theory has now been debunked as this had been "simply impossible to sustain." Now that they know for certain how the human race originated, they just need to find some evidence of how time and environmental factors have led to the formation of such a machine.

The atheist population of the earth rallied together in a month long drinking, smoking and pill-popping celebration of their victory over the religiots! They no longer engage in any debates regarding origins and probabilities - they just laugh and laugh.


Zimbabwe! Who would've thought?!



Footnote: Ougi, Bougi, Skubi and Dube never did get the second part of their payment (i.e. the bullets) as Sam was pretty annoyed at the damage to his house and the fact that he eventually had to move out due to the unpleasant odour that seemed to hang in the house.