[Telepathic Intruder]

"it’s the last gas station on the way to the stars"

Hardly. It's only the farthest one you're currently aware of. Pluto is the closest KBO to the sun, and the first discovered, but by no means the farthest out. There are others that are many times farther. And the Oort cloud is supposed to extend almost halfway to the nearest star. The Solar System inside the orbit of Pluto is really just a very small part of it, but probably the most significant since it contains the biggest objects (that we know about).

[Vermont Lt]

“...that we know about.”

Well, isn’t that the whole idea behind exploration?