"But what if the explosion kills all the animals and there's no one left to report back that, yes, there was a noise?" Not that the things in the forest counted as 'animals' right? They were just little beast that were good for food sometimes.
Really, Clint didn't have an angle with this, his mouth tended to just spout the first thing that came to mind and his brain didn't stop him from getting it out there. It had kept him relatively sane through some long ass surveillance missions, especially since he was usually the look out.
"Can you still say that they heard it before death, or is that just a wild assumption to make?"