Scrat's actions mimic a "pinball" effect in space, highlighting (in a comedic way) how small changes in orbital mechanics can lead to catastrophic planetary impacts. 2. The Ice Age and Mass Extinction Events
The film’s central plot revolves around accidentally triggering a series of cosmic events while aboard a buried UFO. This leads to an asteroid being set on a "collision course" with Earth.
The film uses the threat of an asteroid to mirror the real-life K-Pg extinction event (which actually occurred much earlier, at the end of the Cretaceous period).
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