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Being serious for now.....it's a very interesting result. But like Craig said, it's most likely just media hype grabbing onto the coattails of an unusual result that's turned up. If it holds up to experimental scrutiny and the peer review process, then that is a different matter altogether, but I think it's a little premature to have "announced" such a result on the basis of an apparent detection. Especially with neutrinos...considering for all intents and purposes the little blighters would normally just shoot straight through the detectors and keep on going without even touching the sides. Then you have those coming in externally from cosmic sources contaminating the experiment, as Craig mentioned.
However, if it does turn out to be repeatable experimentally and the paper passes the peer review, then that will most certainly throw a very large spanner into the works. SR will have to be heavily modified if this is the case.
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