202 cHaPter 8 "For those, people will lean more on the transits them- selves," said Fischer. "The concern is how high or low the false alarm rate will be," Stephane Udry from the Geneva Observatory told me. "With precise photometry from space, it may be possible to rule out a lot of false positives and build confidence," he added. In the end, many researchers expect Kepler to produce a handful of near Earth-twin detections and many more likely can- didates. The latter's confirmation may have to await the next generation of behemoths planned for the next de- cade, like the Thirty Meter Telescope and the European Extremely Large Telescope. In the meantime, Kepler is likely to give us a reliable statistical picture of habitable worlds in the Milky Way--extremely useful for guiding future missions that will image such planets, like the European Space Agency's Darwin and NASA's Terres-