If you know how fast they’re going, you don’t know what jurisdiction they’re in 
Part of the problem is that, at that speed, even red lights are blueshifted.
And Og help them if workers were present.
@flyosity: “We don’t allow faster than light neutrinos in here” said the bartender. A neutrino walks into a bar.
Especially if they rear end a Monopole (because there can be only one!). Of course it would be over for the Monopole before it knew it.
Hmmm, how DOES that whole redshift thing work if you are going faster than c?
And, that location joke was pretty good 
In this country, we obey the law of Relativity!
In Soviet Russia, Relativity obeys YOU!
(Yeah I know it makes no sense, but I was channeling Yakov Smirnov)
Update on this, a couple of experimental errors have been found, although the scope of them has not yet been determined. As the more sober posters pointed out, the excitement was very premature, given that the deviation from the expected result was tiny, and there had been no independent verification of the result. It’s still worth looking into, but it’s looking increasingly likely the results were erroneous.
Another update.
Boy, scientists can get catty. First everyone was impressed with the first team’s thoroughness, now everyone’s surprised that bunch of lazy miscreants got any results.
I was near certain that this would turn out to be some kind of mistake.
I have to admit that a small part of me is disappointed though. It certainly would have been interesting to see modern physics having to be completely rewritten!
Must say I’m disappointed too. However I console myself knowing the Universe is expanding faster than the speed of light and we haven’t explained that. For those who wonder what I mean, the edge of the Universe is outside the 13.7 billion year age we currently calculate. There are galaxies expanding away from us so fast that we will never see their light. Think of it as a black balloon outside the visible balloon of the known Universe. Probably about 16.5 billion lightyears away.
That doesn’t violate any laws of physics though. The universe can expand as fast as it likes, it’s the stuff moving within the universe that needs to obey the speed limit.
You do realise that Richard Pearse invented the aeroplane slightly before the Wright Brothers?
But back to the topic: the Universe has rules and expanding faster than one of its rule - C - is a deep puzzle indeed.
(al la Barney Gumble) “A neutrino is thrown out of a bar by the bartender. A second later, the same neutrino is seen behind the bartender.”
Well, the universe came into existence all at once, so it actually makes sense that some things would have come into existence already farther apart than light could travel in the time it’s had since creation. Also, the laws of physics didn’t lock themselves into place until after the big bang, so all bets are off what the universe was capable of right before that.
Yes I do :).
Yeah, right.
I wouldn’t go as far as to say he flew before the Wright brothers, I just think it’s an interesting piece of NZ aviation history, hence the user name.
It is indeed interesting. Sorry if I was rude.
It’s ok, I didn’t see it as rude.