I'd like to see design documents showing it was meant to withstand a 767 loaded with fuel going at a high rate of speed hitting the building in any location.  They designed for situations like the ESB and 40 Wall St. building crashes.  In other words, a plane that was attempting to land at a nearby airport, but got lost for whatever reason.  That means it would be traveling at a slow speed with a small amount of fuel left.  Also an office building is loaded with things which aren't jet fuel that can burn.

It's kind of hard to take any structural engineering claims from you seriously when you didn't even understand why the South tower fell quicker.

I didn't make the claims.  I linked earlier in the thread a video where the Manager of WTC Construction & Project Management was stating that it could withstand a fully loaded 707 crash into it and stating he believed it could withstand multiple impacts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q74MiBSqm78

Apparently it just hadn't been planned for. A passenger plane hadn't been hijacked in something like 35 years in the USA before 9/11, they turned the electronics off that gave a signature on the radar (they could still be tracked, but were just one bleep among many) and the US defence system just didn't have any plan for the situation of a bunch of domestic flights being hijacked - all of their planning was focused on outside threats coming in.

Um, there ISN'T a question.. At least not in my mind. The only people that "question" it our obviously brainwashed by the media, which keeps pounding into our heads over and over that a plane can somehow take down a 110 story steel building in 10 seconds, despite over half the American public now believing otherwise. If you discard the offical story completly, pretend it doesn't exist... Then anyone with any sense at all would look at those buildings and the way they fell, and know explosives obviously had to bring them down. Absolutely scary how much the media can interfere with our common sense...

Again, watch this video, made by a highly regarded architect, who began a site in which 1500 architects and engineers have signed a petition to begin an independent ingestigation: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b74naeawdCs

and you will see what it really takes to bring down a steel skyscraper.  A building like this doesn't come down merely with gravity, ESPECIALLY at freefall aceleration. Steel is a VERY VERY strong material, relatively light, with TREMENDOUS weight bearing capacity, and doesn't even BEGIN to weaken until temperatures much greater than what we know were present in the buildings. The WTC had dozens upon dozens of large steel beams, including massive thick core columns. The floor pannels were both welded AND bolted to the outer steel columns, as well as the thick inner core. Yet people actually believe that in a blink of an eye, thousands of these bolts simply popped, and 10 floors are brought down within ONE SECOND.

Also, with regards to the explosives, there are HUNDREDS of different types of explosives, all with varying degrees of volume, flashes, destructive force, etc. You really don't think insiders within the government don't have access to some relatively silent explosives that don't emit bright flashes?

Not to mention, people DID hear them.. Litterally HUNDREDS of witnesses reported hearing and feeling explosions after, and even BEFORE the first plane hit. William Rodriguez, the last person out of the WTC, reported to hear an explosion in the basement, litterally pushing him UPWARDS, then seconds later, he heard the plane hit in the distance near the top of the building.. Again, explosion... BEFORE the plane hit! Sooo, what's the story here? Do you think this man is lying? People were reported seeing and feeling walls caving in in the basement, and getting injured and even killed by them. There was even a man in building 7 constantly hearing explosions around him (remember, NO plane hit building 7), who reportedly barely made it out alive as floors were caving in around him. This is also the same man who mysteriously died, just days before the NIST report of the Building 7 collapse was released.. Hmmm. There are litterally red flags EVERYWHERE.

Oh, and another important tidbit.. Physicist Steven Jones, actually FOUND evidence of explosive thermite residue in the WTC dust. And yes, this was throughouly tested. The particles contained the near exact footprints of thermite. No other material in the building could have given this readout.

But no... there were no explosives >_<

This stuff isn't that hard to find, people. The information is litterally AT YOUR FINGERTIPS. And it isn't just speculation. It is scientific fact. Don't take my word for it, do some research for yourselves.

I think the US government is corrupt, inneffectual, and a farce. But there is a difference between saying my neighbor is an asshole, and saying my neighbor has a pile a mutilated corpses in his basement that he eats. Especially when there is no evidence of mutilated corpses in the basement and the guys claiming the contrary are the wierd hobo, the guy that can't stop talking about the jews, and some random asshole that just likes attention.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. And the claim that the US orchestrated the destruction of one of it's own landmarks in a plan to make itself the jack ass idiot of the world that is stupidly in debt and make china the next great world power, is not a great theory, and is an extraordinary one.  There are biologists that argue against evolution in the year  2011, and geologists that claim the earth is 6000 years old in the year 2011. The fact that you can find an educated idiot is not evidence of anything that idiot says. You can find people that say they saw bigfoot, or say that they were anally probed by lizard people. Scientology manages to be immensely profitable. The fact that you can find idiots that claim they've witnessed or experienced things does not mean Tom Cruise has telekenetic healing powers. And a few random jack asses saying they saw explosions, or say they have a degree in engineering and they don't understand how it could happen, are not extraordinary forms of evidence, anymore than the geologist that claims the grand canyon was formed in 40 days by a flood, or some dude that claims he wrestled the chupacobra.

The American government is stupid and broken, and our media is just reality TV hosted by people with degrees in journalism. But that doesn't make the 911 theories less stupid.

Um, there ISN'T a question.. At least not in my mind. The only people that "question" it our obviously brainwashed by the media, which keeps pounding into our heads over and over that a plane can somehow take down a 110 story steel building in 10 seconds, despite over half the American public now believing otherwise. If you discard the offical story completly, pretend it doesn't exist... Then anyone with any sense at all would look at those buildings and the way they fell, and know explosives obviously had to bring them down. Absolutely scary how much the media can interfere with our common sense...

And over half the American public (including you) is therefore ill-informed of the actual structural implications of a plane hitting a building. Mass belief does not equal truth.

Again, watch this video, made by a highly regarded architect, who began a site in which 1500 architects and engineers have signed a petition to begin an independent ingestigation: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b74naeawdCs

An architect is also not qualified to make such statements. It is not his field, it is the field of a structural engineer.

and you will see what it really takes to bring down a steel skyscraper.  A building like this doesn't come down merely with gravity, ESPECIALLY at freefall aceleration.

It is not coming down 'merely with gravity', it's come down with gravity after sustaining serious damage. Also there is a significant difference between freefall (which is what you claim) and near freefall (which is what actually occurs). For simple proof of this watch in a video of the collapse how rubble falls down the side of the building at a greater rate than at which the building collapses.

Steel is a VERY VERY strong material, relatively light, with TREMENDOUS weight bearing capacity, and doesn't even BEGIN to weaken until temperatures much greater than what we know were present in the buildings. The WTC had dozens upon dozens of large steel beams, including massive thick core columns. The floor pannels were both welded AND bolted to the outer steel columns, as well as the thick inner core. Yet people actually believe that in a blink of an eye, thousands of these bolts simply popped, and 10 floors are brought down within ONE SECOND.

This is simply not true.

http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/metal-temperature-strength-d_1353.html

The fires in 9/11 were well and truly hot enough to severely weaken structural steel.

Also, with regards to the explosives, there are HUNDREDS of different types of explosives, all with varying degrees of volume, flashes, destructive force, etc. You really don't think insiders within the government don't have access to some relatively silent explosives that don't emit bright flashes?

Not to mention, people DID hear them.. Litterally HUNDREDS of witnesses reported hearing and feeling explosions after, and even BEFORE the first plane hit. William Rodriguez, the last person out of the WTC, reported to hear an explosion in the basement, litterally pushing him UPWARDS, then seconds later, he heard the plane hit in the distance near the top of the building.. Again, explosion... BEFORE the plane hit! Sooo, what's the story here? Do you think this man is lying? People were reported seeing and feeling walls caving in in the basement, and getting injured and even killed by them. There was even a man in building 7 constantly hearing explosions around him (remember, NO plane hit building 7), who reportedly barely made it out alive as floors were caving in around him. This is also the same man who mysteriously died, just days before the NIST report of the Building 7 collapse was released.. Hmmm. There are litterally red flags EVERYWHERE.

Oh, and another important tidbit.. Physicist Steven Jones, actually FOUND evidence of explosive thermite residue in the WTC dust. And yes, this was throughouly tested. The particles contained the near exact footprints of thermite. No other material in the building could have given this readout.

But no... there were no explosives >_<

This stuff isn't that hard to find, people. The information is litterally AT YOUR FINGERTIPS. And it isn't just speculation. It is scientific fact. Don't take my word for it, do some research for yourselves.

Ok I'm taking this part as a whole because it is entirely self-contradictory. You talk about 'thermite explosives' - thermite is non explosive. It reacts to cause extremely high temperatures but never explodes, if they used thermite to demolish the building then there would have been no need for explosions.