Wednesday February 18, 2026


February 18, 1954


John Travolta - Videos - Filmography



You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others.



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February 18, 2026


Sun in Pisces

Happy Birthday to the Crystalinks readers born in Pisces.

Pisces is a mutable water sign ruled by Neptune.




February 17, 2026 - Ellie Turns 83



This week is about birthday fun with my friends - while this weekend I celebrate with family.


How does it feel to be 83? No different. I feel great - happy, healthy and always busy with life - family, friends, clients, writing and more.


I stopped following most of what's happening in the world ... watching the 'simulation' play out and forever being shown that the destiny told to me on the UFO in 1954 is coming to pass.


Recently I read posts by people you probably have heard of - saying they have been given predictions about the future but are not allowed to share. That is so 1990's. Ignore. Irrelevant. Delete.


I also read "posts for wounded souls" about healing and loving yourself, etc. Those are for another subset in the simulation who need to hear this, but if you're not one of them, just move on so when your birthday comes around, you can be happy no matter how you celebrate.


To those who share my birthday ... have a great day. Aquarius rules ...


Milestones. Crystalinks has been up for 30 years - that puts me at age 53 when our journey began. What an adventure we are sharing together ... Follow the prompts until the end.




February 17, 2026


New Moon 28° Aquarius Solar Eclipse




February 17, 2026


Chinese New Year - Year of the Fire Horse


Happy New Year to those celebrating.




February 17 - March 19, 2026


Ramadan


Ramadan is a sacred month of fasting, reflection, and spiritual renewal observed by Muslims around the world. My neighborhood of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, is a diverse cultural community that includes many Muslim families who celebrate. Those who own or work in local stores often seem surprised that I know so much about the holiday having experienced Ramadan in Egypt years ago. We exchange stories - and I offer my good wishes - small gestures of connection and understanding in these divisive times.




February 17, 2026


Mardi Gras


Colors of Mardi Gras: Purple (Justice), Green (Faith), Gold (Power)


Mardi Gras, which means 'Fat Tuesday' in French, is a festive celebration marking the last day before Lent - a season of fasting and reflection in the Christian tradition. It's a time of joy, indulgence, and community parades, symbolizing the balance between earthly pleasures and spiritual preparation.




Obama and Alien Agendas


To date, no US president has spoken publicly about extraterrestrial and UFO government coverups existing. From what I've learned - some former presidents have been given the information - while most were kept in the dark - supposedly for security reasons.


Modern UFOlogy began prior to WWII and continues today with alien surveillance drones monitoring the planet until closure of the experiment - leaving behind a legacy of speculation, scattered evidence, and unanswered questions that continue to challenge humanity's understanding of its place in the universe.


Whether these phenomena represent: advanced non-human intelligence visiting Earth from another timeline, place, or dimension, classified human technology, channeled information from the grids that create realities, misidentified natural events, the simulation, or something humans are not programmed to understand - remains part of an ongoing mystery and debate fueled by declassified documents, eyewitness testimony, and evolving scientific inquiry.


Humanity is aware of alien interaction in the human experiment and the presence of extraterrestrials on planet Earth in modern times - the clues everywhere - although today I see most of them as busy work.


Enough questing. Humans may or may not be programmed to get the answers because of what it will do the concept of God. Mythological gods should be programmed out of the simulation because they're not coming back, they don't protect us, and frankly they never really existed - just storylines that consciousness has moved beyond.


I find it interesting that the Alien Experiment on Humans - to create advanced hybrids - ended in 2008 the same year Obama was elected. Obama's tell - when he is lying or avoiding - is to slightly stammer.


February 2026 - Planet Earth - Former US President Barack Obama has jokingly confirmed that aliens are real in an interview with podcaster and YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen before shutting down the conspiracy around a Nevada Air Force base. Obama said, "They're real, but I haven't seen them. They'e not being kept at Area 51. There's no underground facility, unless there's this enormous conspiracy, and they hid it from the president of the United States."



April 2012





Astronomy in the News


Astronomy Index


Ultra-fast pulsar found near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole


Hubble Captures a Dying Star Cracking Open the Egg Nebula


Astronomers Stunned by Rocky Planet in the Wrong Place


NASA fired three rockets into the northern lights and the results are stunning





Physics in the News


Physics


This Quantum Breakthrough Connects Two Opposite Realities


Scientists Create 'Levitating' Time Crystals That Defy the Rules of Physics


Scientists Discover Surprising Quantum Properties in Seemingly Ordinary Element





Chemistry in the News


Chemistry


How an AI-powered 'digital twin' accelerates chemistry and materials discoveries


Porous liquids could capture methane from biogas and release it on demand





Technology in the News


Artificial Intelligence


Groundbreaking 2D Nanomaterial Rolls Into a New Dimension


Scientists Found the Sweet Spot That Makes Robot Arms Feel Human


AI Chatbots Just Outperformed Human Teams in Analyzing Medical Data


Researchers Find a Way to 3D Print One of the Hardest Engineering Materials on Earth





Brain in the News


Brain Index


Scientists Reveal the Brain's Hidden Map of Thought


'Dream Engineering' Can Boost Your Puzzle-Solving, Study Suggests


This Simple Brain Exercise May Protect Against Dementia for 20 Years


Aging Rewrites the Brain's Protein Code - and Scientists Just Found the Switch


Lab grown human spinal cord heals after injury in major breakthrough





Health in the News


Health Files ~ Alternative Healing


Do Positive Affirmations Really Work? A Psychologist Explains The Science


People prefer the empathy of humans, but rate 'fake' AI empathy higher


Humans Used to Sleep Twice Each Night. Here's Why It Vanished.


Sleep deprivation harms the gut via the vagus nerve, early study reveals


New Light Therapy Can Suppress a Key Marker of Hair Loss by 92%


Common Diabetes Drug Linked With 'Exceptional Longevity' in Women


First-of-Its-Kind Map of Alzheimer's Reveals Hidden Gene Activity


Scientists discover brain switches that clear Alzheimer's plaques


Can You Really Feel The Cold 'In Your Bones'? An Anatomy Scientist Explains





Planet Earth In the News


Planet Earth Index


Climate change is accelerating but nature is slowing down


Sea Levels Are Rising Globally. Around Greenland, They're Projected to Fall.


How 1.5 million km of undersea internet cables can double as an earthquake and tsunami warning system


Winter grips Northern Japan, especially the island of Hokkaido home to some of the snowiest cities in the worlds





Archaeology in the News


Archaeology


Lost for 96 Years Beneath the Nile, the Missing Half of a Legendary Egyptian Statue of Ramesses II Has Finally Been Found


Archaeologists Just Unearthed a 5,000-Year-Old Fortress Hiding Deep in the Forest of Romania


First Solid Evidence of Hannibal's Infamous War Elephants Discovered in Spain


Archaeologists Just Unearthed a 5,000-Year-Old Fortress Hiding Deep in the Forest of Romania


More than a century after its discovery, Scandinavia's oldest plank boat is finally giving up a new secret - a fingerprint


1,200-Year-Old City From Alexander the Great's Empire Has Just Been Found Hidden Beneath the Sands





Paleontology in the News


Paleontology Index


The earliest recorded vertebrates had four eyes to escape predators in the ancient Cambrian ocean


Paleontologists Discover a Lost World: Ancient Cave Preserves Life From 1 Million Years Ago