Whatever magic pixie dust is in minix, I'm pretty sure it's not going to suddenly make redundant CPUs sprout up in my laptop. You're talking about something else entirely. I could just as easily say that if half of Google's data centers were nuked, they could still serve searches, just slower, and therefore prove linux is utterly reliable.

Anyway, if you like anecdotes, I saw with my very own eyes the network cable between two OpenBSD firewalls chopped with an axe to no detrimental effect. So there. Monolithic kernels are superior to motherfucking axes.