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Trapping Light Rays with Segment Mirrors

Let MM be a finite set of pairwise disjoint closed line segments in the plane and let ss lie on none of them. Rays from ss reflect specularly at segments of MM. Is there always at least one ray whose reflected trajectory reaches a point outside conv(M{s})\operatorname{conv}(M\cup\{s\})?

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