Are these folks using their wowzerkeewillikers gear to study the finback corpse inside Boston Harbor?  How come the Globe has so many finback factoids out of sync with other reports?  Like the dead whale first being reported afloat off Deer Island . . . and then floating ashore on Long Island . . . And the Glob-dot-com editors barring comments on this marvey tale . . . and the Coast Guard watch officer knowing that whales are seen inside Boston Harbor 3 or 4 times a year . .  Folks living on the Boston Harbor shore sure don't see any 50-foot marine animals surfacing at low or high tide . .  And when was the last whale-human vessel collision ?  And maybe this dead finback was struck by a hit-and-run ship. . . Wow, will the Coast Guard do an investigation and find the offending vessel and arrest it on charges of striking a whale and fleeing the seen of an accident?  Oh yeah, this finback is supposed to be a member of an endangered species. . . only 10,000 of the beasts in U.S. waters. . . What about the ones that avoid U.S. waters and frolic and feed way out at sea or in Cuban, Bermudan, or Canadian waters?  ARe they endangered too?  Anyway, ap9ologies to the torpedo-shaped robot makers/launchers. . . . The idea of a stinking, decaying 50-foot-long whale carcass stinking up the harbor area seems to deserve a bit of reader participation.