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Dear Emma,

Thanks for your letter. I was very glad to get it.

As for my family, we are very friendly indeed. We are five: mum, dad, me and two my younger twin-sisters. They are also annoying sometimes like your brother, but I think it is just the matter of their age. You know my mum is a housewife, so she spends most of her time with them. But weekends we spend all together. I like this time because our father always joins us. We usually drive to the country or to the seaside. We have a lot of fun together.

Well, what about you? How do you spend the weekends? Where do you go with your friends or with your brother? Is your brother much younger than you or not? Have you got anything in common with him? Anyway, I want you to get along with him.

Now I must go. Write soon.

Best wishes,

Elena

The future of the Earth is - sad, but not the worst option. Our planet can be destroyed by natural disasters or we will simply run out of minerals, and then you have to look for a new home. Mars seems to be a good starting point ... but the main dream, of course, associated with the colonization of other star systems.
Будущее вне Земли — печальный, но не худший вариант. Наша планета может быть уничтожена природными катаклизмами или мы попросту исчерпаем полезные ископаемые, и тогда придётся подыскивать себе новый дом. Марс кажется неплохим начальным пунктом… но основные мечты, конечно, связаны с колонизацией других звёздных систем.

Future with aliens - why not? Some believe that the aliens are already among us. To find extraterrestrial intelligent life is likely to be difficult, to the point of impossible. It will need to develop space technology to a qualitatively different level, to take all possible precautions ... But the end of the firm "loneliness in the universe" is definitely worth it.
Будущее с инопланетянами — почему бы и нет? Некоторые уверены, что пришельцы уже среди нас. Обнаружить внеземную разумную жизнь скорее всего будет непросто, на грани невозможного. Потребуется развить космические технологии до качественно иного уровня, принять все возможные меры предосторожности… Но окончание фирменного «одиночества во вселенной» определённо того стоит.