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>>15789812
No pluto is in the Kuiper which is only 39.5 AU from the sun. It'd still take years to reach even Pluto with perfect 4 planet gravity assists and fuel depots.
>>15789815
The Oort cloud on the other hand is 2000AU away. Voyager, a probe that got a once in a century gravity assist will only reach it in 300 years. We need far future propulsion tech to ever get there. If you can get to the Oort in a reasonable time span, you have the propulsion for interstellar travel.

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