[prisoner6]

Posting for anyone following this, but not sure how valid it is. In the article there is no direct confirmation the team is safe and are just "busy". Something doesn't seem right.

Even if the team was busy wouldn't a plane be on standby to remove the team? If they are leaving today or tomorrow I would think arrangements would already have been made, the team would be packing up and contact would have been made.

[Vroomfondel]

Oh, I'm sure they're safe. It's just that they are now safe pod people!

[Hunton Peck]

...as they drill into a lake buried beneath the Antarctic ice for 20 million years.

Well, if they're going to be at it for that long anyway, you'd think they could take time to drop an e-mail. I mean, the effort couldn't set them back more than a millennium or two.

[stormer]

[richardtavor]

This guy doesn’t know jack. He is expressing his hope, but says so strongly enough to make people believe..

[Darksheare]

Well, considering they just found ten inch or bigger shrimp..
..what are the odds that they just got eaten or infected by some huge bacteria, virus, or spore?
Russian Vodka Zombies wandering the Lake Vostok area.

[Hunton Peck]

Looks like they've been heard from: Russian scientists reach buried Antarctic Lake Vostok.

[RansomOttawa]

said he believes contact with a team of Russian scientists that has not made contact with colleagues in the U.S for seven days has merely been busy

What the who now?

It's illegal to drive drunk, but they never said anything about writing.