solid metal cubes are probably too expensive and could break the glass

although liquid filled would break or bow out if the liquid freezes

All the pipes are plastic too.

Methanol poisoning happened where I live too some time back. That turned out to be that someone was intentionaly mixing methanol with the alcohol to increase yield. And then someone else mixed more methanol withot knowing there was already some. Increasing methanol to ethanol ratio to poisonous levels.

Ethanol act as inhibitor to methanol poisoning…

Conan the Barbarian

Resident evil

Dred 2012

Redline

He means there is deliberate perspective making the big truck even bigger in the photo.

Notice how the whels of the small SUV are the same size. And the front tire on the big truck is like 20% bigger than the rear.