Scientists are trying to drill into Lake Vostok. A lake that hasn’t been exposed to air since man began living here. They don’t know whats down there. Could be life we’ve never seen.
Sound familiar? The Thing 
Except this is real life.Hope they are ok. There is also real concerns about introducing contaminates into this pristine environment.
The second article link is much longer and has some great images.
Upon Googling, I came across this article which contradicts those articles and blames it on Fox News (ain’t called Faux News for nothing, wouldn’t be the first time they goofed either):
Whether true or not, it doesn’t seem to be making international headlines, as I would expect it to (yet).
The Daily Mail had the story first yesterday. Then today Fox picked it up. I figured with two sources it was worth posting about.
I had never heard of this lake under the arctic ice before. Could be a lot of fish never seen before.
Uh, we are talking about The Daily Fail and Faux News here. 
I frequent a conspiracy message board, and people there are already contributing the missing scientists to all kinds of wacky things.
Unearthed aliens who are taking over the bodies.
A cloverfield like monster managed to squeeze through the hole and ate the scientists.
They unearthed Cthulhu and went mad.
They drilled into a secret nazi base and were taken prisoner.
Same as above, just switch nazi with NWO.
Jimmy Hoffa.
The **Fail **must be sure the lake’s filled w/ the remains of ancient women who tried to have a job while being mums but found themselves fat and/or unfulfilled.
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Do you frequent such a board too? One of the posts on that board suggested they found Jimmy Hoffa. (At least that one wasn’t being serious.)
No fish - from the OP, the lake has been under ice for 20 million years. Also it is in the antarctic - the other side of the planet from the arctic.
This story does remind me of an incident that took place at an Antarctic base that I was at in the 90’s. The base is about 60 miles north of McMurdo, and only holds 5-10 scientists. A few years before I was there, the field party decided to hike around on the sea ice. At that point in the season, the sea ice was not stable, and was in the process of breaking up. Bad idea. An off-shore wind blew a lead in the ice (open water) near the shore. They could not get back to camp.
That evening, they did not make their scheduled radio check-in. Nor the next morning. An emergency helo flight confirmed that there was nobody at the camp. Nobody at all. No notes. Nothing to indicate where the party had vanished.
Recon flights turned up nothing. Meanwhile the party was on an ice floe in the middle of the Ross Sea. And ice floe that was getting smaller and smaller as it broke into pieces.
Finally several days later, a US Navy Hercules flight was coming into McMurdo from Christchurch NZ. They had been warned to keep an eye open on approach. They noticed an ice floe tipping at an odd angle, so circled around for a better view. They spotted the party hanging on to a now very small floe.
All were rescued. When we were at this base camp, the rules were quite clear; No going on the sea ice, ever, for any reason. It was quite fascinating to read the camp log book around those dates, as the search parties all checked in through the hut and logged comments.
They pissed off the elder things.
The burning question is; Do they have a flamethrower?
This is what I thought of first. If they find the rest of the party, but one man and one dog are missing, you just know they’ll wind up in the frozen ruins of some eldritch and cyclopean city.
wow that sounds like a fun read! I need some entertainment..
Give us the linky-link, pretty please?
(mods…aw, come on now, I know you guys don’t like links to other message boards …But this one ain’t gonna provide you with no competitors… It’s more like linking to a weird post on Fark.com )
I had a rough day at work and I need some fun today…
Not officially confirmed yet, but they have apparently drilled into the lake (Fox reports the same, with just a passing mention of the previously reported loss of contact):
The first think that comes to my mind when I see “conspiracy message board” is Godlike Productions, which is probably the site Mr. Accident is referring to (the description in Google outright states that “Godlike Productions is a Conspiracy Forum. Discussion topics include UFOs, Conspiracy, Lunatic Fringe, Politics, Current Events, Secret Societies, Conspiracy…”.
Note the kind of site I would frequent though because conspiracy theories are the complete opposite of what I follow.
Even though this was debunked on the 4th, as late as the evening of the 7th Google News was still highlighting the “story”.
This is a problem with news aggregation: False stories don’t get sent to the bit bucket.
I was going to merge the two threads on this topic, but since this one contains erroneous information in the title, I’m just going to close this one and direct everyone to the new thread here.