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As a control, why not fire both photons and neutrinos simultaneously at a distant target?

In order to rule out systematic errors, why not fire a pulse of neutrinos and a pulse of radio waves at a distant target at exactly the same time? Presumably any difference in arrival times would then be a compelling result. Ideally, fire them at a detector floating in space a few million kilometers from Earth? I'm not a scientist so there are probably eighteen reasons why this wouldn't work, or on the off chance it's valid, eighteen people have already started working on it. I guess I'm just wondering.
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It seems there are quite a few questions popping up on here roughly translating as "maybe we dont know the speed of light". The truth is there is no need to measure the speed of light at a distant target, as it has been done many many times to incredible accuracy.

Clearly the neutrino result is very unexpected and will need to be verified by other neutrino detectors. But it is very important to realise that we know the speed of light, it has been measured countless times and forms part of numerous fundamental equations which have themselves been tested to incredible accuracy. The speed of light is not the issue here, it is whether there is a systematic error or not in the neutrino speed measurement that is of importance. The way to test this is to use different setups built by different scientists and check their results. Add to this that a neutrino detector is a very large instrument that is built deep underground to block out cosmic rays, launching one into space would be both vastly expensive and likely the noise from cosmic rays without even the earths magnetic field to protect it would render it useless. Nice thought tho!