In a paper written back in 1960 by Freeman Dyson titled, " Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation" Dyson suggested that any other technological civilization in the universe would likely follow a similar power consumption pattern to that of humans.

在弗里曼·戴森于 1960 年写的一篇题为《人工恒星红外辐射源的搜寻》的论文中，戴森提出，宇宙中任何其他技术文明都可能遵循与人类类似的能源消耗模式。