re: #193 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

From the Cracked article that Al put up…re: #174 Mad Al-Jaffee

But if you take damage—or have an onboard system fail—and it’s not right in line with what the mission planners thought might fail, your options are pretty much limited to picking which part of your ass you would like to kiss goodbye. None of the stand-by sci-fi strategies for crisis management are going to work.

That would seem to be a call for redundant systems.