PI's Perspective: What if Voyager had explored Pluto? Options

[Planet X]

Check out this latest PI's perspective. It is a very interesting read. I will be pointing out a similar and even more interesting concept later on. Stay tuned!

J P

[algorithm]

It would have been great to know more about Pluto already, but the ammount of info gathered by New Horizons will be larger even if returned slower.
The greatest benefit imho is that the 'target audience' will be immeasurably larger. Technology marches on and with the advent of the internet and the explosion in home computing and mobile communications the new insights really will be for the whole of humanity, rather than a select few.
Plus science can do a lot more with any data received now than it could have done in the 1980's, what with a better general understanding and of couse computer modelling and such like.
So in the end it probably was for the best that Voyager did not visit Pluto at that time.