A space cannon - if reasonably reusable - would allow for more frequent "launchings", like several times a day.
NASA knows that the turnaround cycle for cargo-only freighters to the ISS right now is too long to respond to emergencies.
Now for any orbital industry to exist, the space cannon would be an ideal way of getting pallets of construction material into near earth space, in order to say, build a space elevator economically, or pre-position material for transfer to an L-5 colony.
For that matter, how else can we even begin to place the material into orbit for a real operational Spacedock for building interplanetary transports?
NASA's ISS is not a sparkling example of meeting contract schedules and budgets.
In actuality, the SeaLaunch semi-submersible former oil-drilling, now orbital launch platform is currently docked due to bankruptcy in Los Angeles Harbor. Given the sea conditions near the Equator, platform stability control is an issue that is well understood.
Given that Lawrence Livermore National Labs has already successfully tested the hyper-velocity hydrogen gas fired cannon at a smaller scale, as seen recently on the Science Channel, the real question becomes, who is really going to step up to the plate to fund and manage the full-scale engineering development project?
I vote on keeping this one with the US Navy. They have a knack for getting big engineering right through appropriate over-design and rigorous inspection, and understanding the political implications of managing the security of the biggest guns at sea. NASA might be allowed to book launch windows, with perhaps a discount on launch fees, but it would have to compete against commercial space payloads booked by FedEx for orbital construction job sites.
Afterall, the first successful anti-satellite operation performed by the US was from Aegis-class Navy destroyers bouncing around in the Bering Straits taking out an out-of-control USAF recon satellite with reprogrammed Raytheon fleet protection missiles.
And, once a technology goes operational, the US Navy never ever buys one of anything for political expedience. They always buy in depth for the long run, for as long, and as hard, as the mission takes.
In the world of space business, a little "political focus" helps to round up resources such as personnel and technologies, which might otherwise not be developed. "Diverting an asteroid" is a political focus. One benefit might be global survival, but the other benefits should also be considered, like developing the ability to park an iron-nickel asteroid in near-earth orbit for astro-mining to develop interstellar spacecraft and L5 habitats.
While NASA has been focused on the very far, ROSCOSMOS seems to have remembered that cost-of-production can be a direct function of distance. If Apophis will approach within the moon's orbit, why not figure out how to grab it and park it where Soyuz and Ares can easily get to it every weekday. Now that would be an interesting catch and the beginning of a real space economy!
If my memory serves me correctly, in the late 1970's there was a Science Fiction short story published in one of the Nebula Award anthologies wherein video cameras and remote weapons were tied to a crime-fighting game system operated for the purpose of winning points towards the release of the prisoners who operated the triggers.
One of the key motivations for playing the game was gaining the return of the prisoner's body once enough points were earned, since their disembodied brains were actually plugged into the neighborhood crime-fighting network.
This line of thought suggests that "INTERNET EYES" hasn't gone far enough yet - and they might consider leasing Predator UAVs to fly cover in British airspace.
Can anyone reply with the title and author of this short story?
Many casting notices are posted on this bulletin board for indie productions in and around Southern California. The list accepts casting notices from "adult education" to family/religious G-rated productions. A number of network "reality TV" productions have posted their non-union casting requests during the last year and all report healthy responses to their postings, due to the post-2001 economy.
Traditionally, casting notices are issued about 48-hours before an audition date to reduce the number of responses that casting directors have to review. E-mail responses should consist of a current actor resume, with contact info, and a recent headshot in JPEG format. Resume should indicate union/non-union status of the actor, and if they are represented by an agent or a manager, it should have the contact info for their representative.
Register a disposable e-mail address and VoIP phone number for each project with a large ISP to prevent swamping your primary e-mail and VoIP servers. Only reply to those responses that you want to see with the audition contact info, date, and location address. Provide ICQ, AIM, and MSN IM info if you plan to have WiFi or SMS access on the road, so you can deal with last minute schedule changes.
Indie producers should try to respect the SAG Low Budget/Experimental, the IATSE Low Budget, the DGA Low Budget, and the WGA Low Budget contract terms, if you want NAME talent to participate in your project to enhance its market potential. Given the low number of U.S. domestic productions on the calendar for this year, NAME talent can be available for all roles and crew positions. Please see the respective websites for more information.
- Biological templates are quaint, but mythological and fictional templates should be considered as well. Probably, the "Dog" design template was first considered because the K-9 units have the necessary transport containers. Fuel is probably high-energy canned cyber-spam.
"Centaur"
- 4-legs and 2-arms. Better in-field manipulator capability. Optional 6-legged gait. Multiple survivable gait modes on battle field. Can be armed with TOW-missiles, or in a pinch, bows and arrows. And can be camoflaged with bearskins. Top speed around 80 kph, but would require a very compact high-capacity drive system, and high-capacity heat stealthing technology. Probably feeds on cyber-hay.
"Push-me Pull-you"
- Two heads are better than one. Better surveillance coverage through independent sensor mounts. Improved survivability. Faster refuel rate. No waste. Dual visual-acquired-targeting systems for liquid stun propellent for close combat. Great pack robot, being sure-footed, as long as both sensor mounts compute the same terrain navigation solution. Also, probably, feeds on cyber-hay.
"Incredible Mr. Limpet"
- Well, yes, the Don Knotts character was some kind of human-transformed tuna, but an actual limpet is a rather obnoxious mollusk well known for fastening en masse onto the hulls of ships, disrupting the efficient flow of water, thereby increasing drag, and reducing manueverability and speed.
Now consider, a robo-limpet designed to increase the drag on enemy foot soldiers, by increasing their inertial fully-loaded mass by 20%, or by simply changing their center of gravity by 15%.
The robo-limpets would roll, drop, or glide into combat, identify an enemy combatant, and then latch on with the ultimate crazy-glue foam system.
The foam could be designed as an unstable acrylic-based, or urethane-based, plastic explosive, sensitive to sudden impacts, heat, and electrical discharges, when hardened.
There would be a spray-on catalyst that would dissolve the foam harmlessly, for those combatants quick enough to avoid losing their balance, after a limpet attacks, and smart enough to surrender. Light armor units could have difficulty with robo-limpets, as well.
Active flock/flight-control and target-acquisition would allow airdrop, catapult, or mass-driver, delivery so that payload can be maximized. Fuel not required. Robo-limpet capacitors would be charged using microwave transducers just prior to airdrop. A robo-limpet should be about the size of a paintball, and a few dozen should be able to immobilize an enemy combatant. A normal air-drop from a single B-52 should consist of several million robo-limpets.
"Kanga and Roo"
- A high-speed, extremely capable, obstacle jumper, capable of target-hovering to launch a secondary delivery system with smaller attack profile and higher penetration speed. Besides, both systems would pack a "punch" when facing enemy combatants. Watch out for the tails and the left-hooks.
"Heffalump"
- High capacity, multi-tonnage, transport robot, equipped with phased-array radar and infra-sound detectors with air-coverage range, snorkle-capable flexible breather manipulator for submerged transport and self-maintenance, optional battering rams, and stealth capability. Definitely feeds on cyber-hay - and honey.
Philip K. Dick was writing from personal experience of electroshock therapy for manic-depression symptoms related to his bouts of schizophrenia. His upside experience often involved religious ecstasy, complete with hearing the voice of God, as described in his novel "Valis." Currently, anti-psychotics are prescribed to control the symptoms, but with significant side-effects.
Electroshock therapy is reported to cause loss of short term memory. Also, consider the short-term memory problems related with the "date-rape" drug Rohypnol(TM), generically called flunitrazepam.
"Total Recall", "Screamers", "Minority Report" are all reflections of Dick's experience with clinical psychiatric care in the 60's and 70's. "Paycheck" is yet another Hollywood variation on the theme. Add to this, William Gibson's "Johnny Mnemonic" and culture watchers see a pattern of self-examination by Hollywood creatives as to the side-effects of fictional retellings of history. Consider Ronald Reagan's confusion of his role in "Murder in the Air" (1940) and its Inertia Projector - with the Space Defence Initiative and Dr. Edward Teller's space-based, nuclear-initiated, Gamma-Ray lasers.
Add to this Alzheimer's protein placques and the original question is completely moot. Memory erasure technology exists: The real challenge involves developing selective finesse and an understanding of the mechanism for reversing memory loss. That there are two memory mechanisms, short-term and long-term, is not in dispute. Short-term provides specificity and details, while long-term memory is of a holistic and probabilistic nature. Loss of short-term memory is often experienced by amnesia patients, who often find that they can rely on their long-term memory to recognize objects and execute previously learned behaviors, such as speech.
Current work on designing nano-particles to attack cancerous tumors by blocking blood vessels has potential application for providing selective destruction of regions of the brain that involve memory (the hippocampus) and cognition (temporal lobes).
The actual citation is "Nature" 426, 137 - 138 (13 November 2003); doi:10.1038/426137a. I learned to read the "New Scientist" as the Fleet Street News of Science: deliberately sensational, and necessarily incorrect to maintain readership. New Scientist is another example of Rupert Murdoch's and William Randall Hearst's paradigm for making profits with otherwise boring News.
It is a report about Arecibo's radar measurements of the Lunar South Polar region. With a best resolution of 300 meters across, the Arecibo team reports that the dish did not detect large earthlike formations of ice, BUT the report does not dispute the earlier gamma-ray scattering measurements used to infer the presence of water in the Lunar South Polar Region. Rather it states, that the water is not likely to be in masses of ice - or caverns of ice - that are greater than 300 meters across, and is likely to be mixed into the fine lunar dust as ice granules in a loose permafrost, or extremely thin sheets, or other non-radar reflecting condensate.
As such, the report doesn't even rule out flocks of lunar penguins as the source of the lunar water signature.
Given the naturally anhydrous nature of lunar dust - it is also possible that the water is locked into micro aggregations of lunar "concrete," since the sticky lunar dust would ionically bond to any ionized water depositing on the surface of the moon. This form of water would require more energy to release from the lunar soil than simply strip-mining chunks of ice sheets, but a dynamic electro-magnetic lense, perhaps constructed from interfering microwaves, should be able to concentrate solar wind plasma to a high enough energy density to split the water from the soil.
Dream on gentle readers: The water is there, just not in the form expected for when "The Iceman Cometh." Note: Gentle readers should check out Eugene O'Neill's play of the same name, where delusion provides the only escape from disappointment.
KVH manufactures the "TracVision"(R) tracking antenna array for mobile KU-band satellite service reception. This should make "trekking" a more connected experience.
It was actually massive doses of thorazine, as opposed to just methamphetamines, which his publicist and friends claimed, because Dick was diagnosed as a schizophrenic many, many, years ago, complete with religious hallucinations and electro-convulsive therapy. It was easier to sell his books to a public that did not understand schizophrenia, but was familiar with drug-induced hallucinations.
The writer missed a key movie:
"Screamers" (1995), from the screenplay written by the Dan O'Bannon, based on the Philip K. Dick story "Second Variety". This movie envisions that robotic sentry devices would evolve into human look-alike androids, which are intelligent but deadly anti-personnel weapons, mimicking humans so well that they can fall in love.
"Screamers" is a key predecessor to Jim Cameron's "Terminator" series and to Dan O'Bannon's own "Alien" series, where the weapon is a lifeform. "Second Variety" was anthologized by the "Spectrum IV" book.
All of Dick's stories feature characters that represent the female duality of good and evil. Prissy/Rachel in "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"/"Bladerunner", Lori/Melina in "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale"/"Total Recall", and Jessica1/Jessica2 in "Second Variety"/"Screamers", Anne Lively/Evanna in "Minority Report", and the Chancellor/Maya Olham in "Imposter" (2002). It is reported that the female characters represent his obsession with his fraternal twin sister, Jane, who died shortly after child birth.
All of the male protagonists are confused as to their own identity, as to whether or not each is a real human - or a synthetic memory implant, android, or clone. That confusion persists through every story.
Add to this "Paycheck" (2003), starring Ben Affleck, which will be released later this year -- and Hollywood will have milked almost all of his written works, except for the novel "Valis", where Priscilla/Prissy reappears and Philip K. Dick is an active character, who has conversations with God. That might be tricky for Hollywood marketeers to sell to today's public.
What's interesting is that a lot of Dick's plots were originally explored by A.E. Van Vogt. The difference is that the "identity confusion" theme really was informed from Dick's own personal experience.
Hopefully, the residuals will go to support his former wives and his kids. It is well known that Dick would burn through his advances, and begin his next book in anticipation of the next advance check. In his lifetime, the publishers never sent him a residual check.
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A space cannon - if reasonably reusable - would allow for more frequent "launchings", like several times a day.
NASA knows that the turnaround cycle for cargo-only freighters to the ISS right now is too long to respond to emergencies.
Now for any orbital industry to exist, the space cannon would be an ideal way of getting pallets of construction material into near earth space, in order to say, build a space elevator economically, or pre-position material for transfer to an L-5 colony.
For that matter, how else can we even begin to place the material into orbit for a real operational Spacedock for building interplanetary transports?
NASA's ISS is not a sparkling example of meeting contract schedules and budgets.
In actuality, the SeaLaunch semi-submersible former oil-drilling, now orbital launch platform is currently docked due to bankruptcy in Los Angeles Harbor. Given the sea conditions near the Equator, platform stability control is an issue that is well understood.
Given that Lawrence Livermore National Labs has already successfully tested the hyper-velocity hydrogen gas fired cannon at a smaller scale, as seen recently on the Science Channel, the real question becomes, who is really going to step up to the plate to fund and manage the full-scale engineering development project?
I vote on keeping this one with the US Navy. They have a knack for getting big engineering right through appropriate over-design and rigorous inspection, and understanding the political implications of managing the security of the biggest guns at sea. NASA might be allowed to book launch windows, with perhaps a discount on launch fees, but it would have to compete against commercial space payloads booked by FedEx for orbital construction job sites.
Afterall, the first successful anti-satellite operation performed by the US was from Aegis-class Navy destroyers bouncing around in the Bering Straits taking out an out-of-control USAF recon satellite with reprogrammed Raytheon fleet protection missiles.
And, once a technology goes operational, the US Navy never ever buys one of anything for political expedience. They always buy in depth for the long run, for as long, and as hard, as the mission takes.
Let Starfleet be Starfleet!
In the world of space business, a little "political focus" helps to round up resources such as personnel and technologies, which might otherwise not be developed. "Diverting an asteroid" is a political focus. One benefit might be global survival, but the other benefits should also be considered, like developing the ability to park an iron-nickel asteroid in near-earth orbit for astro-mining to develop interstellar spacecraft and L5 habitats. While NASA has been focused on the very far, ROSCOSMOS seems to have remembered that cost-of-production can be a direct function of distance. If Apophis will approach within the moon's orbit, why not figure out how to grab it and park it where Soyuz and Ares can easily get to it every weekday. Now that would be an interesting catch and the beginning of a real space economy!
If my memory serves me correctly, in the late 1970's there was a Science Fiction short story published in one of the Nebula Award anthologies wherein video cameras and remote weapons were tied to a crime-fighting game system operated for the purpose of winning points towards the release of the prisoners who operated the triggers.
One of the key motivations for playing the game was gaining the return of the prisoner's body once enough points were earned, since their disembodied brains were actually plugged into the neighborhood crime-fighting network.
This line of thought suggests that "INTERNET EYES" hasn't gone far enough yet - and they might consider leasing Predator UAVs to fly cover in British airspace.
Can anyone reply with the title and author of this short story?
Thank you!
What about Fan T-shirt designs???
Front - over a silhouette of Jim Caveziel:
"THE PRISONER" -- in 72 pt
"The Special Rendition Edition" -- in 48 pt
Vote for 6! -- in 56 pt.
On the back - over the facing silhouettes of Ian McKellan and Dick Cheney:
Vote for 2!
Be seeing your replies! ....
PS: Gosh - what if Port Merion had Twitter and iPhones instead of Rovers?
Many casting notices are posted on this bulletin board for indie productions in and around Southern California. The list accepts casting notices from "adult education" to family/religious G-rated productions. A number of network "reality TV" productions have posted their non-union casting requests during the last year and all report healthy responses to their postings, due to the post-2001 economy.
Traditionally, casting notices are issued about 48-hours before an audition date to reduce the number of responses that casting directors have to review. E-mail responses should consist of a current actor resume, with contact info, and a recent headshot in JPEG format. Resume should indicate union/non-union status of the actor, and if they are represented by an agent or a manager, it should have the contact info for their representative.
Register a disposable e-mail address and VoIP phone number for each project with a large ISP to prevent swamping your primary e-mail and VoIP servers. Only reply to those responses that you want to see with the audition contact info, date, and location address. Provide ICQ, AIM, and MSN IM info if you plan to have WiFi or SMS access on the road, so you can deal with last minute schedule changes.
Indie producers should try to respect the SAG Low Budget/Experimental, the IATSE Low Budget, the DGA Low Budget, and the WGA Low Budget contract terms, if you want NAME talent to participate in your project to enhance its market potential. Given the low number of U.S. domestic productions on the calendar for this year, NAME talent can be available for all roles and crew positions. Please see the respective websites for more information.
"Dog"
- Biological templates are quaint, but mythological and fictional templates should be considered as well. Probably, the "Dog" design template was first considered because the K-9 units have the necessary transport containers. Fuel is probably high-energy canned cyber-spam.
"Centaur"
- 4-legs and 2-arms. Better in-field manipulator capability. Optional 6-legged gait. Multiple survivable gait modes on battle field. Can be armed with TOW-missiles, or in a pinch, bows and arrows. And can be camoflaged with bearskins. Top speed around 80 kph, but would require a very compact high-capacity drive system, and high-capacity heat stealthing technology. Probably feeds on cyber-hay.
"Push-me Pull-you"
- Two heads are better than one. Better surveillance coverage through independent sensor mounts. Improved survivability. Faster refuel rate. No waste. Dual visual-acquired-targeting systems for liquid stun propellent for close combat. Great pack robot, being sure-footed, as long as both sensor mounts compute the same terrain navigation solution. Also, probably, feeds on cyber-hay.
"Incredible Mr. Limpet"
- Well, yes, the Don Knotts character was some kind of human-transformed tuna, but an actual limpet is a rather obnoxious mollusk well known for fastening en masse onto the hulls of ships, disrupting the efficient flow of water, thereby increasing drag, and reducing manueverability and speed.
Now consider, a robo-limpet designed to increase the drag on enemy foot soldiers, by increasing their inertial fully-loaded mass by 20%, or by simply changing their center of gravity by 15%.
The robo-limpets would roll, drop, or glide into combat, identify an enemy combatant, and then latch on with the ultimate crazy-glue foam system.
The foam could be designed as an unstable acrylic-based, or urethane-based, plastic explosive, sensitive to sudden impacts, heat, and electrical discharges, when hardened.
There would be a spray-on catalyst that would dissolve the foam harmlessly, for those combatants quick enough to avoid losing their balance, after a limpet attacks, and smart enough to surrender. Light armor units could have difficulty with robo-limpets, as well.
Active flock/flight-control and target-acquisition would allow airdrop, catapult, or mass-driver, delivery so that payload can be maximized. Fuel not required. Robo-limpet capacitors would be charged using microwave transducers just prior to airdrop. A robo-limpet should be about the size of a paintball, and a few dozen should be able to immobilize an enemy combatant. A normal air-drop from a single B-52 should consist of several million robo-limpets.
"Kanga and Roo"
- A high-speed, extremely capable, obstacle jumper, capable of target-hovering to launch a secondary delivery system with smaller attack profile and higher penetration speed. Besides, both systems would pack a "punch" when facing enemy combatants. Watch out for the tails and the left-hooks.
"Heffalump"
- High capacity, multi-tonnage, transport robot, equipped with phased-array radar and infra-sound detectors with air-coverage range, snorkle-capable flexible breather manipulator for submerged transport and self-maintenance, optional battering rams, and stealth capability. Definitely feeds on cyber-hay - and honey.
I haven't seen one - Have you? (grin)
Philip K. Dick was writing from personal experience of electroshock therapy for manic-depression symptoms related to his bouts of schizophrenia. His upside experience often involved religious ecstasy, complete with hearing the voice of God, as described in his novel "Valis." Currently, anti-psychotics are prescribed to control the symptoms, but with significant side-effects.
Electroshock therapy is reported to cause loss of short term memory. Also, consider the short-term memory problems related with the "date-rape" drug Rohypnol(TM), generically called flunitrazepam.
"Total Recall", "Screamers", "Minority Report" are all reflections of Dick's experience with clinical psychiatric care in the 60's and 70's. "Paycheck" is yet another Hollywood variation on the theme. Add to this, William Gibson's "Johnny Mnemonic" and culture watchers see a pattern of self-examination by Hollywood creatives as to the side-effects of fictional retellings of history. Consider Ronald Reagan's confusion of his role in "Murder in the Air" (1940) and its Inertia Projector - with the Space Defence Initiative and Dr. Edward Teller's space-based, nuclear-initiated, Gamma-Ray lasers.
Add to this Alzheimer's protein placques and the original question is completely moot. Memory erasure technology exists: The real challenge involves developing selective finesse and an understanding of the mechanism for reversing memory loss. That there are two memory mechanisms, short-term and long-term, is not in dispute. Short-term provides specificity and details, while long-term memory is of a holistic and probabilistic nature. Loss of short-term memory is often experienced by amnesia patients, who often find that they can rely on their long-term memory to recognize objects and execute previously learned behaviors, such as speech.
Current work on designing nano-particles to attack cancerous tumors by blocking blood vessels has potential application for providing selective destruction of regions of the brain that involve memory (the hippocampus) and cognition (temporal lobes).
The actual citation is "Nature" 426, 137 - 138 (13 November 2003); doi:10.1038/426137a. I learned to read the "New Scientist" as the Fleet Street News of Science: deliberately sensational, and necessarily incorrect to maintain readership. New Scientist is another example of Rupert Murdoch's and William Randall Hearst's paradigm for making profits with otherwise boring News.
It is a report about Arecibo's radar measurements of the Lunar South Polar region. With a best resolution of 300 meters across, the Arecibo team reports that the dish did not detect large earthlike formations of ice, BUT the report does not dispute the earlier gamma-ray scattering measurements used to infer the presence of water in the Lunar South Polar Region. Rather it states, that the water is not likely to be in masses of ice - or caverns of ice - that are greater than 300 meters across, and is likely to be mixed into the fine lunar dust as ice granules in a loose permafrost, or extremely thin sheets, or other non-radar reflecting condensate.
As such, the report doesn't even rule out flocks of lunar penguins as the source of the lunar water signature.
Given the naturally anhydrous nature of lunar dust - it is also possible that the water is locked into micro aggregations of lunar "concrete," since the sticky lunar dust would ionically bond to any ionized water depositing on the surface of the moon. This form of water would require more energy to release from the lunar soil than simply strip-mining chunks of ice sheets, but a dynamic electro-magnetic lense, perhaps constructed from interfering microwaves, should be able to concentrate solar wind plasma to a high enough energy density to split the water from the soil.
Dream on gentle readers: The water is there, just not in the form expected for when "The Iceman Cometh." Note: Gentle readers should check out Eugene O'Neill's play of the same name, where delusion provides the only escape from disappointment.
KVH manufactures the "TracVision"(R) tracking antenna array for mobile KU-band satellite service reception. This should make "trekking" a more connected experience.
Product information is located here:
http://www.kvh.com/tracvision/A5/index.asp
(sigh) - "speed ruined heart" - That's a myth.
It was actually massive doses of thorazine, as opposed to just methamphetamines, which his publicist and friends claimed, because Dick was diagnosed as a schizophrenic many, many, years ago, complete with religious hallucinations and electro-convulsive therapy. It was easier to sell his books to a public that did not understand schizophrenia, but was familiar with drug-induced hallucinations.
The writer missed a key movie:
"Screamers" (1995), from the screenplay written by the Dan O'Bannon, based on the Philip K. Dick story "Second Variety". This movie envisions that robotic sentry devices would evolve into human look-alike androids, which are intelligent but deadly anti-personnel weapons, mimicking humans so well that they can fall in love.
"Screamers" is a key predecessor to Jim Cameron's "Terminator" series and to Dan O'Bannon's own "Alien" series, where the weapon is a lifeform. "Second Variety" was anthologized by the "Spectrum IV" book.
All of Dick's stories feature characters that represent the female duality of good and evil. Prissy/Rachel in "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"/"Bladerunner", Lori/Melina in "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale"/"Total Recall", and Jessica1/Jessica2 in "Second Variety"/"Screamers", Anne Lively/Evanna in "Minority Report", and the Chancellor/Maya Olham in "Imposter" (2002). It is reported that the female characters represent his obsession with his fraternal twin sister, Jane, who died shortly after child birth.
All of the male protagonists are confused as to their own identity, as to whether or not each is a real human - or a synthetic memory implant, android, or clone. That confusion persists through every story.
Add to this "Paycheck" (2003), starring Ben Affleck, which will be released later this year -- and Hollywood will have milked almost all of his written works, except for the novel "Valis", where Priscilla/Prissy reappears and Philip K. Dick is an active character, who has conversations with God. That might be tricky for Hollywood marketeers to sell to today's public.
What's interesting is that a lot of Dick's plots were originally explored by A.E. Van Vogt. The difference is that the "identity confusion" theme really was informed from Dick's own personal experience.
Hopefully, the residuals will go to support his former wives and his kids. It is well known that Dick would burn through his advances, and begin his next book in anticipation of the next advance check. In his lifetime, the publishers never sent him a residual check.