But I do worry that some day the cloud fairy will turn into the wicked cloud fairy of the west and start charging me for every post, or that the cloud will burst and my data will become inaccessible, which is why I keep a copy of everything I post on my own server (and then I back that up).
Donald Lamb of the University of Chicago and his colleagues think it might be just a dust cloud reflecting the glow of the burst, which is therefore nearby.