Yet Another Space Group: The Space Illuminati
Keith’s note: Wow, the space advocacy community has been rather fertile this past week spawning not one but two new organizations – all of this on the heels of a anonymous meeting of the usual space advocacy suspects. This newest anonymous group is called “Pioneering Space Declaration” (spacedeclaration.org). No press release has been issued. Instead this group just appeared out of nowhere. It seems to have been spawned by Rick Tumilinson’s Pioneering Space Summit last week and has a nifty Illuminati-style logo. They want you to sign their two sentence “declaration” but they do not list a single human name to signify who is actually behind this latest organization. Nor do they tell you what they will do with your name and contact information.
But they do show lots of logos. Most are familiar – but some are mysteriously unfamiliar. But they then post this: “Disclaimer – These companies and organizations supported the Pioneering Space National Summit at which this statement was drafted and approved. Their appearance here does not infer official endorsement of the declaration. At this time they may or may not be involved in future activities or actions in regard to the declaration.” So … these groups do/do not endorse this declaration – and they “may or may not be involved” in what is happening now or in the future – but we won’t tell you – or maybe we will – or maybe we just did. Now THAT is illuminati-speak!
They do state that they are “a diverse group of over 100 space leaders” albeit anonymous space leaders – in keeping with the whole illuminati meme. They also want you to give them money via PayPal to yet another mysterious group: the EarthLight Foundation (earthlightfoundation.org) which has no individual names affixed to it either although Tumlinson has mentioned an affiliation with it. As you will see in the comments section below this organization’s 501(c)(3) status has been revoked by the IRS.
Keith’s update: The donation link for the Earthlight Foundation has been removed – this is a screen grab of the page it used to send you to.
The week is still young. Will we see more space advocacy organizations popping up? Stay tuned. This is starting to sound like a Dan Brown novel.
Keith’s update: The Space Frontier Foundation just issued a press release titled “Historic Consensus Achieved at Pioneering Space Summit 2015”. “Historic”? Really? How so? Half of the space advocacy community was left out in the cold during this closed session – and no mention is made of planetary and space science in the final summary statement. Baffling.
I prefer Okuda’s similar, albeit decade-old, Project Constellation logo
http://www.spaceref.com/new…
Me too.
The Texas SOS records show Rick Tumlinson as President of the EarthLight Foundation and Pat Rawlings and Jim Logan as Directors. They list an address in Houston – 18711 Egret Bay Blvd #603.
See: http://apps.irs.gov/app/eos…
Guidestar has similar information on offer:
http://www.guidestar.org/or…
Not Registered with IRS: Legitimacy information is available
Financial Data: Organization has not reported Revenue & Expense data to GuideStar
Mission Objectives: Mission Statement is not available
This organization is not registered with the IRS.
This organization is required to file an IRS Form 990-N.
This organization’s exempt status was automatically revoked by the IRS for failure to file a Form 990, 990-EZ, 990-N, or 990-PF for 3 consecutive years. Further investigation and due diligence are warranted.
i would totally join the Space Illuminati
Are they asking you to sign up for their e-mail mailing list as well?
I think it’s a scam. They’re asking for money, but won’t provide any names attached to their space declaration (despite “two days arguing hard over it”), and it’s coming out conveniently after a “big” Mars One announcement. It’s almost as if they’re trying to free-ride off the hype.
I’m struggling to see why anyone would donate money only to get a few sentences after a conference about what manned space exploration should be. We’ve already got multiple groups doing and saying virtually the same thing.
That’s why I also asked about the e-mail mailing list. If they can get a bunch of people to provide their e-mails for a mailing list, they can turn around and sell that too along with pocketing donations.
I doubt they’re getting much in the way of donations, although you never know. We don’t even know how many of their claims about “more than 100 space experts present” are true.
They removed the donation link a few hours I posted comments about it.
In other breaking news, participants were able to achieve a consensus in favor of motherhood and apple pie. A spokesman said there was no truth to the rumor that those favoring cherry pie were excluded from the discussion.
Put a couple of feet on it and that logo looks like mathemusician Vi Hart’s happy triangle man. Except with a frown.
Link at http://www.youtube.com / user/ Vihart
(spaces added to URL to prevent multimedia stuff in post)
It’s not a Dan Brown novel without a senator who killed his wife and almost his daughter for fame, a Canadian government who doesn’t care what the US government do on their military base, exploding buildings, exploding cars, and NASA more villainous than the actual bad guys in the novel.
On the other hand the Illuminati had people pretending to be a member of. They are not that level yet.