Pareidolic Dark Matter (PaDaM)
Dark matter is a sphinx (Oort 1932; Zwicky 1933; Rubin & Ford 1970; Tyutchev 1869). Despite ingenious hunting strategies, we continue to chase after this notoriously elusive creature within the dark zoo (Feng 2010; Fan et al. 2013). In the sky, there are X-ray “mice” (Gaensler et al. 2004), radio “snakes” (Uchida et al. 1992), even an optical “Crab” (Rosse 1844; Mitchell 1855). The latter may have been a “pineapple”, as a matter of fact (Dewhirst 1983). But such discussion is beyond the scope of our tract.