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Technology because the jet engine sucks in air from the atmosphere we are basically incapacityiated. >> with satellite and internet and telecommunications mother nature tells us who is really boss. >> geraldo: and how long will the eruption last? >> in the past in 1821 that same volcano blew its top and lasted for 13 months. it was sputtering during that time. and in 1783, benjamin franklin was in paris winding up negotiations of the revolutionary war and this blanket of smog sailed over paris. >> i think i will offer transatlantic cruises for all the people stranded at the various airports, o...

Technology because the jet engine sucks in air from the atmosphere we are basically incapacityiated. >> with satellite and internet and telecommunications mother nature tells us who is really boss. >> geraldo: and how long will the eruption last? >> in the past in 1821 that same volcano blew its top and lasted for 13 months. it was sputtering during that time. and in 1783, benjamin franklin was in paris winding up negotiations of the revolutionary war and this blanket of smog sailed over paris. >> i think i will offer transatlantic cruises for all the people stranded at the various airports, o...

Well, we don't know how long it's going to last. we're monitoring the activity as it goes on. of course i'm not monitoring it. but seismologists in iceland are. and sometimes the volcanos get very active as they have recently. other times it slows down a little bit and then it reactivates. but over time, the vigor of the explosions will slowly dissipate out and we expect that it will, you know, die down and turn off. >> how about might it replicate what it did back in 1821 when the volcano erupted for more than a year? does the force of what we are seeing now indicate that there's a lot more t...

>> exactly, for two minutes. >> for enough time to kill the germs. >> and eric knows all the words. >> exactly. >> dr., thanks. >> thank you very much. >> see you next week, doc. a fox news alert now. brand-new updates coming in at this hour on the major travel disruptions in europe. boy, what a mess. around the world, the erupting volcano in iceland has left travelers stranded but now airports in spain, germany, some of these are reopening at least temporarily. good morning, i'm jamie colby. >> and i'm eric shawn, welcome to a brand-new morning edition of fox news sunday sunday morning. did...

Two years in 1821. what do you say about that now? >> well, two years is not an abnormal length of time for an eruptions such as this. >> how far does ash spread and does it change over time? >> well, each time there is a pulse of eruption, it puts stuff up in the stratosphere and it will take quite a while for that pulse to dissipate and if it keeps going on for a year or so, you can imagine the problems for air traffic going on in the future. >> are there others that are as active? i don't recall seeing one that has crippled airlines as this one has. >> well, volcanologists used to talk abou...