response 22 of 62:

Jan 18 23:08 UTC 2006

Redundancy is a pretty clear advantage, as is load-balancing.

The appendix is, of course, a lot less clear.  If there is some life
function which is impaired by its removal, apparently it's not a very
important one or somebody would have noticed by now.  I suppose it could
be something undetectable; maybe the appendix is where the soul is
housed, so anybody who has had it removed doesn't get to go to heaven.