25 Things Facebook Could Buy With $19 Billion Instead Of WhatsApp

Facebook's recent $19 billion dollar acquisition of the popular application "Whatsapp" has us asking: "What else could have been bought with that kind of money?" Well, here are 25 things that Facebook could buy with $19 billion instead of WhatsApp. https://twitter.com/list25 https://www.facebook.com/list25 http://list25.com Check out the text version too! - http://list25.com/25-things-facebook-could-buy-with-19-billion-instead-of-whatsapp/ Here's a preview: Hubble Telescope at launch | $1.5 billion Clean water for the entire planet | $10 billion Large Hadron Collider | $11 Billion The whole TGV Fleet of SNCF (French Railways) | $4.2 billion The fifty most expensive paintings ever sold | $5 billion MMR Vacine for every child in the world Two Pixars | $7.4 billion X 2 The Construction of 12 Burj Khalifa (World's Tallest Tower) | $1.5 billion each Four wars combined: The American Revolution, the Spanish American War, the War of 1812, and the Mexican War. | $15.3 billion dollars. (in 2011 dollars) Top 50 college football programs | $15 billion Every Airbus A380 built in 2013 | $10 billion The London Olympics | $10.4 billion USS Ford aircraft carrier | $13 billion Jamaica | $15 billion The entire US government budget for a day | $10,460,188,800 Driver education courses for every licensed driver in America | $17 billion World's music industry | $16 billion Iceland | $14 billion 2014 USA National School Lunch Program budget | $9 billion Pay Detroit's debt | $18 billion 42 years of public broadcasting in the United States All the adoption fees for all the animals in shelters in the US | $1.2 billion The 8.5 mile subway extension in New York City | $16 billion 13 "Allure Of The Seas" Royal Caribbean cruise ships | $1.4 billion each 8 Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (World's largest solar power plant) | $2.2 billion each