After ou hundredth release, here is a delayed binary distilled (101). Welcome to this new episode of our curation effort! The SteemSTEM community is as usual waiting for you to pass by on the [**SteemSTEM discord server**](https://discord.gg/9c7pKVD), where most our active members are available to chat with anyone on a daily basis.

^{[image credits: @medro-martin]} We present in this distilled our **top two handpicked post choices** for the last week. As usual, our selection committee consisted in a one-man team made of @lemouth, and some statistics are given at the end of this post.
Please do not be discouraged if you did not make it on this issue. The chances to be picked are low. In the meantime, you may wish to check [**these guidelines**](https://steemit.com/steemstem/@steemstem/helpful-guidelines-for-crafting-steemstem-content) for extra tips on how your writing could be more effective (or ask for a mentor on [**Discord**](https://discord.gg/9c7pKVD)).

Our top choices

Ion Thrusters To Propel Humanity Into Future

Traveling in space... an old dream that is good to discuss today, as we went to the moon exactly 50 years ago. @medro-martin discuss in his last post rockets in space and the important topic of moving into the intersideral vacuum. Very recently, ion propulsion appears and this is what this post is about.

Molecules in interstellar space and a close look at electrons

@empressteemah continues this series on what is going on with physics in the interstellar medium. Again, this is just an excuse to comprehensively discuss the properties of the atoms regarding their position in the Mendeleev table, and how this is connected on the configuration of the various electrons of each element.

Statistics

SteemSTEM offers support to anyone using our app, steemstem.io. We recall that:

Posting an article through the app automatically yields a 5% stronger upvote at curation time.
Posting a reply to an article (or to another reply) from the app can sometimes yield some SteemSTEM support.
Setting @steemstem as a beneficiary to the post automatically yields a stronger upvote (up to 5%).

Last week, the SteemSTEM curator teams have supported 50 posts written by 37 authors. 23 of these posts have been posted through the app (and got a 5% stronger upvote). Among these 50 posts, we find:

7 small upvotes (less than 20%)
19 medium upvotes (in the 20%-50% range)
24 large upvotes (larger than 50%)

In addition, we have upvoted 31 comments posted through the app, written by 10 authors.

The list of upvoted post authors, potentially getting some extra support from @curie and/or @utopian-io, is:
@aboutcoolscience, @anaestrada12, @arar5, @azulear, @belkisa758, @borjan, @carlos84, @carloserp-2000, @cervantes, @corsica, @debo-medstudent, @emperorhassy, @empressteemah, @eniolw, @faltermann, @felixrodriguez, @gentleshaid, @hadji, @hongtao, @iamphysical, @irvinc, @laylahsophia, @loveforlove, @lupafilotaxia, @medro-martin, @mike961, @newton666, @rbalzan79, @rerere, @satren, @spaghettiscience, @stem-espanol, @tomastonyperez, @tomlee, @ubaldonet, @urdreamscometrue, @yreudy
The list of upvoted comment authors is: @abneagro, @agmoore2, @alexander.alexis, @amestyj, @belkisa758, @carloserp-2000, @eliaschess333, @emiliomoron, @felixrodriguez, @lemouth

All curation rewards earned will be used to fund @steemstem project functioning and activities.

See you all next MonTuesday (or later)!