[BahUnfair]

There are other methods to finding planets. Most of the early Hot Jupiters were found by measuring the "wobble" of a star - a bulge at the surface - caused by the gravity of the massive gas giant careening around it.

Also, the title is wrong, just because the telescope is looking for earth like planets doesn't mean it can't find gas giants as well.

[robryan]

I'm aware, just pointing out that the transit method that kepler uses can only pick a percentage of planets even if they are of significant enough size to be found because from our viewing angle they don't transit.