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human
If we were on one of the Kepler planets and were using our current tech to find distant planets, would we be able to find Earth?

To clarify, lets say we are on a hospitable planet surrounding one of the stars that Kepler (or similar) is watching.  With our current planet hunting technologies and processes, if we monitored the Sun, would we be able to find earth (or only Jupiter/Saturn, etc)?

Would we even consider looking at the Sun (or is it the wrong type of star?)

If we could find Earth, would we be able to tell its atmosphere and other properties?

Would we be able to identify signatures of intelligent life?
gpt
We definitely couldn't find Earth with the transit method Kepler uses. The area Kepler ~~is~~ was pointed at is more or less perpendicular to the plane that the planets orbit in, so from the point of view a planet discovered by Kepler, none of the planets in our system would ever transit Sol.