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Not your imagination. I seem to remember it had one of those 45 rpm records that fit in the inside cover sleeve and you needed one of those plastic inserts to play it on a regular phonograph. I owned it and listened to it never having seen the movie. But it's been lost to posterior. Through The Black Hoe

Starship Troopers movie > book. Also, Basil Wolverton's Brain Bats of Venus comic story is more entertaining than Puppet Masters the book (that was by Heinlein, wasn't it?).

It had nothing to do with 'mentality.' Europeans fought with each other and Africans fought with each other too. Environment determined the development of societal characteristics, whether to have a developed army and martial philosophy or to be peaceful, whether a society was literate and into the arts or not, etc,…

@wrecksracer- there are several reasons, but the simplest and central reason that technological advancement developed faster in Europe and China (than in sub-Saharan Africa, Australia or the Americas) is because that's where people were around the horses were longest. The domestication of the horse (and the camel)…

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