home publications > mercury . SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... ASP Conference Series . ... Editorial: Rocky Invaders . ... Just sixty years ago the Earth was invaded from outer space, and a small portion of the world panicked as it listened to reports of an attack on New Jersey. ... A young Orson Welles and his Theater company, modernizing H. G. Wells's late nineteenth century novel War of the Worlds, had brought the warring alien to Earth, and we humans were found wanting. ...