Cut! Print! (More Money)

The Army and Air Force are spending $25,000 to send some of the government's brightest scientists -- to film school.

A group of 15 -- rocket scientists, geneticists, and even veterinarians -- is learning how to write and sell screenplays.

The American Film Institute teaches the class.

Here's the pitch: The brass is freaked out that American students don't want careers in math and science. Immigrants aren't taking up the slack fast enough. So the idea is to make math and science look cool on TV and in the movies. That'll draw in more students -- and America will keep a technological edge.

Kinda like Advanced Trigonometry meets Andy Hardy -- "C'mon kids! Let's put on a nanotechnology based weapons system!" (Chicago Tribune) [Image from the Library of Congress]