This text is missing some spaces, please add them: Theterm"netconsumption"isunderstoodastheamountofimportedgoodsinbulkordrums,lessanyre-exportofsubstancesasrawmaterials.
The term "net consumption" is understood as the amount of imported goods in bulk or drums, less any re-export of substances as raw materials.
This text is missing some spaces, please add them: Theydonothidefromlife,theylivelife.
They do not hide from life, they live life.
This text is missing some spaces, please add them: Certainlythoselittletinmachines-spaceships-aregettingfurtherandfurtherawayfromoursignificantrock,butohsoslowly.
Certainly those little tin machines - spaceships - are getting further and further away from our significant rock, but oh so slowly.