What you are saying that while the Voyagers could have found the Kuiper belt, the direction they took (up or down, not important now), made them miss that belt, right?

Huh, was there something I missed? 

I thought I made that joke up myself .

Ooops, quoted the wrong post. I wanted to quote the post with the rockets

yes, they missed the belt due to their new directions, but even if they had stayed in the orbital plane all planets are located on it's extremely unlikely they would have "found" the Kuiper belt even though they would be right in the middle of it by now

that's because it's nowhere near as densely packed as we imagine an asteroid/comet belt in games or movies and additionally most of it's objects emit/reflect hardly any light or infra-red - they are blacker than charcoal when viewed in direct sunlight (like the comet Churyumov-Gerassimenko the Rosetta probe is currently orbiting - it's ~90% certain that it's a former Kuiper belt object)

the only way for the voyager probes to detect an object like that would be direct sun occultation, which is a problem as their main antenna (for communication) is constantly faced in that direction (towards earth) since leaving the last planet

Great achievement for that glorious MIPS CPU and good choice for Sony, it was really simple, efficient and robust, that architecture is still alive and used in some fields. Good choice also for Ninty, that used the newer and more powerful 4000 series, one of the first 64bit CPUs.
I'm still angry with Intel for having deceived so many companies to make them drop 3rd party or kill 1st party RISC CPUs and adopt its crap instead, like the buggy first Pentiums that disgraced and kicked Intergraph out of workstation business, but the worst offences were persuading Compaq to kill Alpha, buying its IP for $1B from that clueless company, and SGI to drop MIPS to make them both adopt that crappy Itanium, that contributed to kill SGI itself. The last Alpha ran circles around Itanium 1 and despite already old and not developed anymore was still able to tie with Itanium 2, God knows where computing would be if Alpha weren't killed, and I suspect the sudden steps forward that pulled Intel CPUs out of the swamp where they were bogged down during the 6 years when Athlons almost always outperformed them, at least for the desktop versions, were taken thanks to the part of Alpha tech that could be adapted to x86 architecture. But those improvements, despite enough to lead x86 architecture again, where quite meh compared to the incredible performance supremacy Alpha had on any other architecture in its golden days.

Thanks.

It's very clear that you know about this topic. I would have been unable to name the comet the Rosetta landed on.

no problem, I'm very interested in space and space exploration and very excited about the first close up pictures of Pluto from New Horizons aswell as close up pictures of a comet core during it's closest proximity to the sun (Rosetta will continue orbiting it for many month - the comet-lander was "Philae" btw ;) )