Question in do Carmo's book Riemannian geometry section 7 I have a question. Please help me.

Assume that $M$ is complete and noncompact, and let $p$ belong to $M$. 
  Show that $M$ contains a ray starting from $p$.

$M$ is a riemannian manifold. It is geodesically and Cauchy sequences complete too. A ray is a geodesic curve that its domain is $[0,\infty)$ and it minimizes the distance between start point to each other points of curve. 

Otherwise suppose every geodesic emitting from p will fail to be a segment after some distance s. Since the unit sphere in the tangent plane that parameterizing these geodesics is compact, s has a maximum $s_{max}$. This means that the farthest distance from p is $s_{max}$, among all points of the manifold. So the diameter of the manifold is bounded by $2s_{max}$, by the triangle inequality. So the manifold is bounded and complete, by the Hopf–Rinow theorem, it is then compact.
