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If you were a light ray it would take a day to cover just the inner solar system,

and about a year to cross "all" of it.

The only space ships (voyager) that we've sent (more than 30 years ago) haven't made it to the edge yet.

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1). How long it takes to go around it depends on where you say the edge is.

If you consider the edge of the solar system to be, say, Pluto's orbit, then the

'natural' time to travel around that edge ... using gravity to do most of the work

so that you don't need to keep burning fuel all the way ... is about 250 years.

2). As a species, we've been dreaming and scheming about it for maybe a thousand years,

and we've completed almost none of it so far. So it takes a really long time, at least

in terms of human lifetimes.

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